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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

Andre Gide

Art, Cutting, Works Of Art

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Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John B. S. Haldane

Cutting, Political, Branches

John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.23, Transaction Publishers

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In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

John Steinbeck

Life, Cutting, Men

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

Thomas Hood

Cutting, Form

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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

Margaret Mead

Cutting, Science, Giving

Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

Gelett Burgess

Children, Cutting, Giving

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The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.

Ronald Fisher

Cutting, Data, Analysis

British Agricultural Bulletin, No. 4, 1951.

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It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

Barack Obama

Cutting, Common Sense, Innovation

First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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Dreams take short cuts.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Dream, Cutting

Ursula K Le Guin (2014). “The Lathe of Heaven”, p.20, Diversion Books

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When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately.

Chris Hadfield

Zero, Cutting, Skills

Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.

Stewart Brand

Cutting, Technology, Artist

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It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.

Louis Bromfield

Cutting, Animal, Men

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Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

Kiana Tom

Hard Work, Cutting, Careers

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Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier... So why don't I just take the short cut and just be happy?

Esther Hicks

Happiness, Believe, Cutting

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It's frustrating - not that I expect to be the same person I was 10 years ago, but I do expect to do certain things. In all honesty, my body for the most part feels really good. But at this point of my career, I have to rely on different parts of my game, knowing how to take some short cuts when you can.

Sheryl Swoopes

Basketball, Honesty, Cutting

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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Raymond Chandler

Writing, Cutting, Thinking

Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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