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«Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated»
«Brief is life but love is long.»
«I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty»
«Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Life
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«In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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«How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.»
«In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Men
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