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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,… — Samuel Johnson
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing.… — Larry McMurtry
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it… — Brian Kernighan
Speech to American Horticultural Society; when challenged to use horticulture in a sentence: You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. — Dorothy Parker
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever… — Francis of Assisi
The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution… — Mother Teresa
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. — Jean Rostand
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and… — Robert Harris
I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear… — Unknown Author
I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map. — Melissa Bank
Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. — Sarah Schulman
To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are… — Richard Rorty
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language,… — Paul Valery
To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into… — Winston Churchill
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. — Plutarch
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest. — Henry David Thoreau
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain. — Zig Ziglar
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins… — Robertson Davies
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures… — Samuel Johnson
A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun. — Paul Reiche III
Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's… — Frederick Buechner
What is thy sentence then but speechless death. — William Shakespeare
Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence… — Milton H. Erickson

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