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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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""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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"The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure." »Kedar Joshi
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"The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself." »Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding." »Bette Davis
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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding." »Quentin Crisp
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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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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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"Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." »Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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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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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." »Miguel de Cervantes
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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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"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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"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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"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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"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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"We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." »Paul Weyrich
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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." »Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman
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"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." »Grayson Kirk
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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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