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The shortest distance between two points is under construction. Leo Aikman | top
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. Stephen Ambrose | top
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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. Ibrahim Babangida | top
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. Henry Bolingbroke | top
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. Earle Brown | top
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. William C. Bryant | top
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. Warren E. Burger | top
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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 | top
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We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. Bobby Clarke | top
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The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. Hermann Ebbinghaus | top
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. Tryon Edwards | top
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But the shortest works are always the best. Jean de La Fontaine | top
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Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while. Simon Fowler | top
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The shortest answer is doing the thing. Ernest Hemingway | top
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The shortest answer is doing. George Herbert | top
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. James Joyce | top
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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. George Mikes | top
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There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. Sun Myung Moon | top
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We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves. Thurston Moore | top
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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. Jane Bryant Quinn | top
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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. Will Rogers | top
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. Samuel Smiles | top
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Yakov Smirnoff | top
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. Alexis de Tocqueville | top
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The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. Bernard De Voto | top