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If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.


Thomas A. Edison


#content #define #genius #his #inspiration

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.


Epictetus


#keep #most #must #only #part

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.


Daniel Boone


#been #briefly #circumstances #country #day

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.


Elizabeth Bowen


#forlorn #hope #impossible #lovers #pity

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#books #briefcase #cardboard #carry #faux

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.


Euripides


#batters #brief #god #sails #stay

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.


Kingman Brewster, Jr.


#anything #briefing #dreadfully #function #i

We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.


Laura Bush


#always #bed #been #briefing #brings

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.


Brett Favre


#back #brief #brief period #deal #difficult






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