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""I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?" »George Carlin
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"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." »Winston Churchill
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"Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart." »Stephen Price
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"Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them." »Hugh Prather
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"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"Whoever said Marriage is a 5-5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language." »Austin Elliot
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"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers." »Albert Camus
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"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth." »Mark Twain
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"The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead." »e. e. cummings, on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923
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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." »Rmy de Gourmont
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"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can." »Cullen Hightower
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"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs." »James Grover Thurber
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"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year." »Horace Mann
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"A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds." »Chinese proverb
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"While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple." »Gerald W. Grummet
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"Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it." »Malcom Gladwell
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"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi
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"It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully." »Doug Vargas
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"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away." »Abraham Lincoln
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"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism." »H. P. Lovecraft
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