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Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

~David Whyte

Topics: Beautiful Beautiful Word Brief Even Evocative Lost Possibilities Regret Short Word

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There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

~Diablo Cody

Topics: Any Around Attention Brief Cloud Compliments Kind Me Need Negative Only Pathological Positive Recognizable Situation Think Thrive Type Want Weird Window You I Think

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I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

~Dick Gephardt

Topics: Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Attended Birthday Brief Court Federal Friend Holiday Keep King Law Law School Luther Making Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Michigan Original School Sponsors Which

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If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Topics: After Another Brief Clusters Composer Four Little Lose Mind Most Only Opportunity Pieces Quite Since Songs Then Think Three Way You Your

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So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

~Donna Rice

Topics: About Agreed Brief Confront Ending Face-To-Face Gary Him His Intention Invitation Last Last Time May Our Relationship See Sincerity Time

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Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.

~Douglas Conant

Topics: About Become Brief Change Connections Day Each Even Future High Interaction Leaders Low Make Many People Point Potential Someone Themselves Think Those Way You

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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

~E. T. Bell

Topics: About Brief Dozen Fifty Half Indeed Mathematical Mathematician Meeting More Out Papers Presented Rare Really Than Understands Who

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I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

~Eben Alexander

Topics: Beyond Body Brief Consciousness Discovered Evidence Exists First History Human Human History Old Person Realm Wonderful

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

~Edgar Allan Poe

Topics: Beauty Brief Creation Define Poetry Words Would

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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: After Best Brief Business Could Death Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Franklin Go Got His House House Of Representatives James Known Listening Madison Months Mourning Notice Official Representatives Some Sort Then Tribute Two Voted Wear Without

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