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«I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.»
«Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.»
«Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.»
«Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
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Justice
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«But the shortest works are always the best.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
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«I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.»
«In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Mountains
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«Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.»
«Great geniuses have the shortest biographies»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Genius
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«Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.»
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