#briefly

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#his #important #important things #man #money

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. ↗

— Robert Brault

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I was briefly bitter. ↗

— Margot Kidder

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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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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#dictated #signed #theology #universe

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

— Bill Nighy

#briefly #good #got #i #might

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

#any #briefly #inverse #involved #item

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

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