“ Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms — in themselves such judgments are stupidities. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. ”
- Byron R. White- Copy
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“ Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. ”
- William Strunk Jr.- Copy
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“ Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
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“ Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. ”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer- Copy
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“ A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ”
- Brendan Behan- Copy
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“ The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. ”
- e. e. cummings- Copy
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“ Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ When you're not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish. ”
- Douglas R. Hofstadter- Copy
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“ The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
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“ Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to a solitary confinement inside our own skins for life! ”
- Tennesse Williams- Copy
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“ Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon. ”
- Doug Horton- Copy
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“ If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory. ”
- Sir Henry Sidney- Copy
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“ Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. ”
- Gary Mark Gilmore- Copy
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