#briefly

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. ↗

— Andy Richter

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. ↗

— Ausonius

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The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly. ↗

— Melissa Bean

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The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic. ↗

— Ben Vereen

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I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year. ↗

— Colin Firth

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

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Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned. ↗

— John Hull

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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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