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• I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

  Cissy Houston

  Daughter, Mother, Wonderful Person

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• Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such that the circulation of the blood is retarded. Standing even for a short time proves exhausting compared with walking and running though it be for a long time ... Nature delights and is restored by alternating and varied actions.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Running, Health, Exercise

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• Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Fun

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Moving, Winning

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• If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.

  Ernst Rohm

  History, Enemy, Nazism

  Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.

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• As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better. Spiritually and intellectually, you realize there is another way, but emotionally you are still clinging to the old habits. This is a difficult time. Try to be patient and compassionate with yourself. When you recognize the futility of an old pattern so clearly, it's about to change! A short time later, you will suddenly begin to respond differently, in a more positive way.

  Shakti Gawain

  Old Habits, Long, Trying

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.162, Mango Media Inc.

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• Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Regret, Life Is Too Short, Healing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Life Is Too Short”

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• With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Race, Air, People

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• Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Sports, Struggle, Rocks

  Anatoli Boukreev (2015). “Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer”, p.4, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Giving Up, Always Be Happy, Illogical

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• He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Memories, Quality, Remember

  Giacomo Leopardi (2002). “Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]”, Hesperus Press

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• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, University of Georgia Press

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• How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

  Sophocles

  Sweet, Forget, Misfortunes

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• If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for a player in that position. Why pay a big cap number for a guy you might only have for a short time And then there's the reality that the veteran and the agent would probably want to be on the open market anyway, figuring they'll get more money that way. The system is not conducive to making a deal for a veteran.

  Marty Hurney

  Team, Player, Reality

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• I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Team, Presidential

  "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920".

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• A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

  Ronald Reagan

  Eggs, Political, Balls

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles.

  Errico Malatesta

  Miracle, Anarchy, Succeed

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.11, PM Press

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• But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Army, Building Up, Leave Me Alone

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• Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.

  Iwane Matsui

  Party, Army, Thinking

  "Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity". Book by Masahiro Yamamoto, History, p. 232, 2000.

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• I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such a long time. James Dean became a star in one calendar year, and then he left us. But he's still being talked about, he's still being revered, he's still being iconized forty years later. I don't think there's another example like it in the entire history of movies.

  Leonard Maltin

  Stars, Thinking, Years

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• I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you.

  Frank Sinatra

  Life, Giving Up, Pain

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• I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I’ve known you for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you forever

  J.A. Redmerski

  Real, Past, Thinking

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• Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

  Daniel Keyes

  Hurt, People, Laughing

  Bert Coules, Daniel Keyes (1993). “The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon”, p.67, Heinemann

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• It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Discovery, Trying, Mouths

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• Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Long, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.326, Oxford University Press on Demand

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