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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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"We compound our suffering by victimizing each other." »Athol
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"All human power is a compound of time and patience." »Honore de Balzac
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"The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say." »Tom Stoppard
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"There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late." »Unknown
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"Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart." »Stephen Price
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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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"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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"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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"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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"The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"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 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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There is a word that is so old fashioned -- I feel compelled to dust it off just to use it in this sentence -- RECIPROCITY -- the “soul-coal” that stoked many barn raisings, harvests and roundups." »Chase LeBlanc
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"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words." »South
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"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction" »Abraham Lincoln
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