#short

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Life is short, the art long. ↗

— Hippocrates

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My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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Life is short and progress is slow. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#life is short #progress #short #slow

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

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When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

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I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it. ↗

— Ray Dalio

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