#shortest

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? ↗

— George Carlin

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But the shortest works are always the best. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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The shortest answer is doing the thing. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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I am the shortest and least funny person in my family. ↗

— Heather Donahue

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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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