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• I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

  Stephen Chow

  School, Long, Chinese

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.

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• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  Bea Arthur

  Believe, Earth, Forget

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• In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God’s sake.

  Tom Piazza

  Cutting, New Orleans, Funeral

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• It's a town you come to for a short time.

  Ernest Hemingway

  New York, Towns

  "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 13, 1950.

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• We lost three very young, very talented drivers in a really short time and that had a lot of influence, too. Certainly Dale's death was a huge smack in the face to everybody, but all those deaths in such a short period of time was awful. It forced people to look at it and say, 'Hey, this isn't a coincidence. There's something going on'.

  Jeff Burton

  People, Three, Looks

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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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• 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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• The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Love, Motivational, Time

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• It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Waste, Shortness

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• The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps it's improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide.

  Robert Higgs

  Fire, Flames, States

  "The Song That Is Irresistible: How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction". Robert Higgs's Schlarbaum Award Acceptance Speech at the Mises Institute's 25th Anniversary Celebration, mises.org. October 16, 2007.

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• It's an undeniable fact, that President Jonathan has done well for Nigeria in such a very short time, and I think he is the answer to the prayer of many Nigerians. I must not be President, but I have vowed to support anyone who shares the same vision I have for Nigeria. And take it from me, President Jonathan has surpassed my vision for Nigeria

  Nuhu Ribadu

  Prayer, Thinking, Support

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• Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

  Rex Hunt

  Government, People, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Party, Reading, Passion

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.379

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• Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person's awakening.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

  Silvan Shalom

  Fire, Important, Lasts

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• There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Taken, Meals, Midst

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• You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be allowed you in this world: it behooves you most seriously to reflect upon your past conduct; to repent of your evil deeds, to be incessant in prayers to the great and merciful God to forgive your manifold transgressions and sins, to teach you to rely upon the merit and passion of a dear Redeemer.

  Thomas McKean

  Prayer, Passion, Past

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• I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

  Perry Christie

  Pace, Illusion, Bowlers

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• By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

  John Woolman

  Country, Time, Grief

  John Woolman (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.156

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• The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

  Tom Wolfe

  Attitude, Hippie, Atheism

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• We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

  Stephen Hawking

  Small Parts, Whole, Universe

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• Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Luxury, Lazy, Desire

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• Dear John, There's so much I want to say to you, but I'm not sure where I should begin. Should I start by telling you that I love you? Or that the days I've spent with you have been the happiest in my life? Or that in the short time I've known you, I've come to believe that we were meant to be together? I could say all those things and all would be true, but as I reread them, all I can think is that I wish I were with you now, holding your hand and watching your elusive smile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Love You, Thinking

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• My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

  Julie Walters

  Children, Grandmother, People

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• [T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.

  Jay-Z

  Medical Problems, Addiction, Drug

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.51, Random House Group

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