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• Jeb`s Bush front-runner status was short lived, to say the least. But who could have predicted that the Republican front-runner would be someone that we were not even thinking about.Donald Trump was not even on anyone`s radar back then and Mike Pence was getting more attention than he was.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Thinking, Would Be, Attention

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.

  George Packer

  War, Mistake, Thinking

  "Planning for Defeat" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2007.

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• The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Suicidal, Essence, Musical

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• Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Eye, Rich Or Poor, Self

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.51, New World Library

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• A girl's career today doesn't have the same kind of life span, whereas it used to be a collaboration and a partnership and it continued. Peter Lindbergh still uses girls - like, look at Amber Valetta - so there are some photographers that have relationships long-term with models. I also think that the industry can't support the amount of models that exist right now and therefore the relationships between photographers and models and even the clients is short lived.

  Michael Flutie

  Girl, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.

  Alanis Morissette

  Believe, Blessed, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.

  Bruce Barton

  Book, Years, People

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• If people recognize me from The Vampire Diaries, they just give me that look that's like, "I think I know you. I think I saw you boxing in 1912, but I'm not sure," because it was such a short-lived run.

  Cassidy Freeman

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Cassidy Freeman Talks LONGMIRE, SMALLVILLE, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and Her Band, THE REAL D’COY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2012.

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• Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Strong, Commitment, Ideas

  State dinner in honor of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and Mrs. Rita Sargsyan, www.president.am. January 18, 2011.

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• Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.

  Rosemary Altea

  Pain, One Day, Overcoming

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• Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

  Jose Saramago

  Perfect, Sublime, Needs

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• We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

  Jose Saramago

  Happiness, Forever, Failing

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• Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Moving, America, Order

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter V, 1835.

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• Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.

  Marcus Aurelius

  World, Earth, Agree

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.87, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

  Eugene J. Martin

  Art, Spring, Reality

  "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin". "Direct Art Magazine", Vol. 13, p. 87, Fall-Winter 2006.

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• It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Swans, Honor, Crow

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 12, 2017

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• I think people only have so much interest in anybody, and if you barrage them in between the times you have something to offer them you become a personality rather than an actor - much more short-lived. I only work once a year. And that's enough.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

  Winfield Scott

  Peace, Achievement, Compromise

  "The Iron Man of India". Book by S. Jaysbee, p. 57, 1951.

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• Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

  Brian Jacques

  Fate, Fickle, Company

  Brian Jacques (2006). “The Ribbajack: and Other Haunting Tales”, p.51, Penguin

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• Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Agony, Leaving

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Mar 29, 2013

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• Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend your quiet time may provide a valuable clue. Where do your thoughts go when the pressure of deadlines is gone? Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most?

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Gone, Fleeting

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• But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

  Suzanne Collins

  Memories, Stupid, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.297, Scholastic

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• More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.

  Peter Dicken

  Alliances, Venture, Different

  "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

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• To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

  Fanny Burney

  Loneliness, Heart, Solitude

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.528, Delphi Classics

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• What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay?
  A breath one single gasp must puff away!
  A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade!
  A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade!
  A stream that silently but swiftly glides
  To meet eternity's immeasured tides!
  A being, lost alike by pain or joy?
  A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy!
  Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone,
  Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.

  Alexander Brome

  Life, Art, Pain

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