#sentence

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. ↗

— Brian Eno

#commonplace #earth #easiest #easiest thing #editing

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#believe #come #course #discredit #fit

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#claudius #decision #guilt #his #innocence

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'. ↗

— James Callaghan

#command #course #economy #every #goes

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#devil #fact #facts #god #great

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#experience #long #long experience #proverb #sentence

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#could #death #i #me #said

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. ↗

— Douglas Hofstadter

#contradicts #itself #sentence

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

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