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5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and… — Jules Feiffer
Sisterhood is powerful. — Robin Morgan
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and… — Joseph Addison
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in… — Carlos Castaneda
There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply. — Marilyn vos Savant
The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1)… — Tim Ferriss
In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money… — Murray Rothbard
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through… — Louis Agassiz
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used… — Marie Curie
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way… — Fidel Castro
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what… — Hippocrates
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the… — Arthur C. Clarke
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the… — Galileo Galilei
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof… — Samuel Johnson
Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. — John B. S. Haldane
There is no work of art that is without short cuts. — Andre Gide
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. — Anthony Trollope
The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd. — Lowell Thomas
Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,… — Thomas Jefferson
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… — Thomas Carlyle

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