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Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. – Cicero
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity. – Henry Bromel
Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn. – The Sufi
Be sincere be brief be seated. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. – Miguel de Cervantes
Be sincere; be brief; be seated. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.) – Horace
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. – Jean Rostand
For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one's life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning. – Psalms 305 Bible
Grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. – Caecilius Statius
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. – Caecilius Statius
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. – Albert Einstein
I strive to be brief, and become obscure. – Horace
If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. – Arthur Schopenhauer
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. – Horace
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. – George Bernard Shaw
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. – Michael Johnson
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. – Michael Johnson
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died. – David Grayson
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. – Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance. – Graham Clarke
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. – D. H. Lawrence

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