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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
Ann Voskamp / Author
Grief
Words
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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Sophocles / Playwright
Wisdom
Words
Often
Fewest
Goes
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Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
Arthur Bryant / Columnist
Writers And Writing
Writing By Writers
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
Diogenes / Philosopher
Dog
Philosopher
Rewards
Greatest
Dogs
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Philosophers
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
Johan Cruyff /
Football
Mistakes
Game
Fewest
Makes
Whoever
Wins
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Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
Paul Brown / Football Coach
Sports
Errors
Football
Team
Fewest
Wins
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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
Paul Graham /
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Thomas Huxley / Biologist
Men
Blunders
Commit
Sin
Fewest
Sins
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell Bovee /
Men
Good Man
Overcoming
Thousand
Overcome
Fears
Fewest
Good Men
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott / Baronet Scott
Inspirational
Success
Motive
Obstacles
Sailor
Wind
Within
Steer
Exact
Fewest
Points
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Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
Paul Wolfowitz / Ambassador
Opportunity
Action
Resources
Voice
Capabilities
Expand
Fewest
Seek
Opportunities
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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
Freeman Dyson / Physicist
Technology
Ethical
People
Problem
Scale
Work Problems People
Fewest
Raise
Technologies
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift / Pamphleteer
Art
Easy
Good Manners
Literature
People
Uneasy
Best Art Good
Bred
Converse
Fewest
Making
Room
Whoever
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It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.
Mercedes Lackey / Author
Fighting
Mean
Numbers
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I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.
Tom Lehrer / Singer-Songwriter
Chemistry
Math
Requirements
Studied
Fewest
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The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.
Bill Budge / Game Programmer
Apples
Bells
Bigger
Effects
Machines
Simple
Special
Special Effects
Weakness
Apple
Bells And Whistles
Fewest
Graphics
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I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year, I started getting back into making movies. My senior year, I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer.
John Hamburg /
Playwriting
Requirements
Senior
Senior Year
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Classes
Fewest
Making Movies
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The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.
Hugh Douglas / Football Player
Good Chance
Nfl
Sunday
Super Bowl
Good Chance Your
Good Chance Win
Biggest Thing
Bowl
Error
Fewest
Margin
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The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.
Joseph P. Bradley /
Accuracy
Consistent
Greater
Harmony
Regard
Words
Consists
Exact
Fewest
Same Time
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In 1996 - when, for the fifth year in a row, we had the best record among major airlines for on-time performance and for baggage handling and the fewest complaints for the number of customers carried - we dedicated an airplane to all of our 25,000 people. We put all their names on the outside of the overhead bins.
Herb Kelleher /
Baggage
Complaints
Customers
Dedicated
Fifth
Names
Overhead
Airlines
Carried
Fewest
Handling
Row
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I approach my interviews with the mindset of, exactly what are we selling? How can I sell it the hardest and the most effectively in the fewest words possible? And how can I make each word that I say mean as much as it possibly can? And I bring that perspective to the table because I used to focus a lot on the character that I had to play.
Paul Heyman / Professional Wrestling Manager
Approach
Mindset
Perspective
Effectively
Sell
Exactly
Exactly What
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