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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

~Aaron Diehl

Topics: Age Any Brief Case Father Great Great Teacher Had He High High School Mother Music Neither Only Percussion Piano Played Really School She Teacher Them Think Very Were While Young Young Age I Think

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The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.

~Abby Wambach

Topics: Brief Celebrate Championship How Kind Minute Moment Move Move On Next Off Podium Preparing Start Step Then Work World World Championship You

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No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Accomplished Brief Country Done Ever History Humankind Israel More No Country People Period Rebirth Recent Relatively Since The History Of Time World

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We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

~Alan Shepard

Topics: Area Back Brief Construction Design Each End Engineers Get Gone Had Other Phases Testing Then Those Together Various Week Worked Would

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We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Alive Always Brief Carbon Different Elements Existed Forms Heat Heaven Maybe Oxygen Period Realize Water

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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

~Alfred Nobel

Topics: Biographies Brief Concise Eloquent Feel Impossible Me Most Unless Writing I Feel

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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

~Algernon Charles Swinburne

Topics: Brief Dead Even Ever Fear Free Gods Hope Life Lives Living Love May Men Much Never No Life Rise River Safe Sea Set Somewhere Thank Thanksgiving Too Too Much Up Whatever Winds

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Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

~Amelia Earhart

Topics: Air Am Among Attainment Become Brief Brothers Concerned Course Dramatic Dream Everyday First Flying Hawk Invention Inventor Kitty Modern Most Perhaps Recent Scientific Seen Span Transportation Which World Wright Wright Brothers Years I Am

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By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

Topics: About Brief Business Century Changed Competitiveness Economies Education Everyone Flat Global Governments History More Now Read Seems Think Thomas Way World

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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

~Anna Pavlova

Topics: Appears Away Brief Butterfly Child Delights Happiness Like Moment Small Small Child Soon Success Thought Us Which Wrong

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