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«The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.»
Author: Dr. C. Walton Lillehei
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Keywords:
Boeing,
Boeing 747,
first flight,
Heart transplant,
shorter,
span,
The Wright Brothers,
transplant,
transplanted,
transplanting,
transplants,
wright
«The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be»
«The reputation of a man is like his shadow: it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size»
Author: French Proverb
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About:
Men,
Reputation
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Keywords:
by size,
follows,
longer,
natural,
precedes,
preceding,
reputation,
shadow,
shorter,
size,
sized,
sizes,
size up,
sizing
«Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.»
«Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time»
«The faster you go, the shorter you are.»
«The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.»
«The longer you will wait for the future, the shorter it will be»
«The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
daylight,
daylights,
passages,
resolutely,
rough,
shorter,
smoother,
The Traveler,
traveler,
wastes,
winding,
windings