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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good. ↗

— Bill Nighy

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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. ↗

— William Osler

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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. ↗

— Mario Puzo

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On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways. ↗

— Mike Rogers

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