USA Today has come out with a new survey – apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. Great short quote and quotation by: David Letterman , US comedian & television host (1947 – )
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William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects […]
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We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance. Great short quote and quotation by: Marilyn King ,
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Baudelaire , French poet (1821 – 1867)
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We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it. Great short quote and quotation by: Anne Wilson Schaef ,
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Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. Great short quote and quotation by: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967) , British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 – )
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. Great short quote and quotation by: Cicero , Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence…on pain of liquidation. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – […]
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Great short quote and quotation by: Emily Dickinson , US poet (1830 – 1886)
Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency […]
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