#shortest

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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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#commonly #fairer #foulest #life #much

In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#big #big challenge #challenge #clothes #doing

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy. ↗

— Roy Blunt

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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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The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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The shortest answer is doing. ↗

— George Herbert

#doing #shortest