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“The fact of the attempted suicide by Augusto Martinez was explained in a concise and exact form by our government in a communique. There is absolutely nothing else to add.”

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Author:Che Guevara

“God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.”

Universe Language Clear Doubt Ought Concise

Author:Walter Lang

“A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.”

Should Would Be Literature Definitions Determine Poetry Is Formulas Concise

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“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.”

Should Writing Reason Lines Should Have Machines Sentences Drawing Unnecessary Vigorous Paragraph Brevity Concise Written Language

Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!”

Thinking Done Focused Exhausted Gears Concise

Author:Twyla Tharp

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.”

World Mother My Own Talent Capable Affection Practicals Breasts Selfless Shocking Inadequate Blunt Selfless Love Concise My Own World Shocking Things

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“"Sorry," she said, "I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know." "Explain protocol," Nell said. This was how she always talked to the Primer. "At the place we’re going, you need to watch your manners. Don’t say 'explain this' or 'explain that.'" "Would it impose on your time unduly to provide me with a concise explanation of the term protocol?" Nell said. Again Rita made that nervous laugh and looked at Nell with an expression that looked like poorly concealed alarm.”

Knows Needs Made Said Term Watches Laughing Expression Sorry Nervous Manners Explanation Alarms Concealed Protocol Concise

Author:Neal Stephenson

“The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.”

Knows Wells Lasts Moving History Hair Admiration Disgusting Dressings Wretched Last Day Concise Thermopylae

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.”

Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

“It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.”

Firsts Simple Clear Pure Censorship Amendments First Amendment Compact Concise Simple Words

Author:Jack Valenti

“In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and old, will feel encouraged and enlightened by this excellent DVD which offers a wonderful range of specific advice and suggestive comments from a group of experienced and thoughtful writers.”

Feels Young Wonderful Groups Advice Offers Tasks Guides Excellent Range Thoughtful Enlightened Comment Indispensable Splendid Textbooks Dvds Revision Young And Old Concise

Author:Margot Livesey

“Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.”

Persons Doe Use Today Lost Black Dark African American Black Person Concise Dark Skinned

Author:Pam Grier

“I am a compulsive and concise shopper.”

Concise Shoppers

Author:Zac Posen

“I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.”

Writing Important Form Challenges Structure Concise

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.”

States Beautiful Built Arizona Mining Concise Uranium Uranium Mining

Author:Jan Brewer

“Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.”

Thinking Men Art Essentials Art Is Bores Refinement Concise

Author:Edouard Manet

“Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense”

Common Common Sense Resorts Concise

Book:The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius

Source: The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius

“Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the market - jump from one stock to another, hold a losing position too long, and cut out of a winner too soon, for no reason other than fear of losing profit. Greed, Fear, Impatience, Ignorance, and Hope will all fight for mental dominance over the speculator. Then, after a few failures and catastrophes the speculator may become demoralised, depressed, despondent, and abandon the market and the chance to make a fortune from what the market has to offer.”

“I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.”

May Moments Citizens Constant Affair Occupation Leisure Concise

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“A masterfully written text for the M&A student and professional: clear, concise, comprehensive, practical, and insightful.”

Clear Written Students Practicals Insightful Comprehensive Concise

Author:Lloyd Levitin

“A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”

Should Writing Lines Should Have Machines Drawing Unnecessary Vigorous Paragraph Brevity Concise Written Language

Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power Plate® training is the most concise. If I start my session at 9.30am, I know I can be at my desk by 10.15am and I can even fit in a workout before rehearsals. Power Plate® exercise is not at all intimidating, and I know that in a short session I have had a complete workout.”

Ifs Knows I Can Done Form Fit Exercise Training Plates Desks Workout Session Rehearsal Intimidating Concise

Author:Maureen Lipman

“I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.”

Thinking Screenwriters Concise

Author:Eric Roth

“Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped...less often.”

Ifs Way Needs Problem Air Arms Gun Endless Nonsense Texas Vessel Impatient Escaping Parades Inconvenience Bribe Nuisance Reverie Inspection Texan Gunpowder Concise

Book:Dreadnought

Source: Dreadnought

“Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.”

Mind Firsts Form Process Goal Imagination Steps Creative Clear Achieve Creation Conscious Possession Aids Senses Primaries First Steps Creative Process Conscious Mind Achieving Goals Concise

Author:Bob Proctor

“There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.”

Source: Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous

“It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.”

“Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.”

Thinking Late Clever Statements Too Late Aphorism Quotations Concise

Author:James Alexander Thom

“Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.”

Names Argument Eloquence Nicknames Concise

Book:Sketches and Essays

Source: Sketches and Essays

“Vigorous writing is concise.”

Writing Vigorous Concise

Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.”

Form Media Sentences Favour Typing Concise

Book:Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan

Source: Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan

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

Feels Writing Impossible Biographies Eloquent Concise

Author:Alfred Nobel

“Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.”

Needs Writing States Government Beautiful Answers Clear Huge Built Regulation Federal Government Here And Now Arizona Mining Copper Concise Uranium Rules And Regulations Uranium Mining

Author:Jan Brewer