#brief

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

#believed #briefings #bush #house #i

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

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I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#briefly #came #fact #got #happened

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brief #duration #enjoyed #flower #found

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. ↗

— David Letterman

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George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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