#sentence

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs. ↗

— Roger Angell

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I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#actually #alan #book #came #down

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

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Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#conditions #going #happen #make #pay

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? ↗

— Jackson Browne

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I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

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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

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