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• A story should, to please, at least seem true,
  Be apropos, well told, concise, and new:
  And whenso'er it deviates from these rules,
  The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Wise, Sleep, Fool

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

  James Alexander Thom

  Clever, Thinking, Too Late

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• Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.

  Crawford Kilian

  Attention, Common, Site

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• El hecho del intento de suicidio de Augusto Martínez fue explicado en forma concisa y exacta por nuestro gobierno en un comunicado. No hay absolutamente nada más que agregar.

  Che Guevara

  Suicide, Government, Add

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• 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.

  Adolph Ochs

  New York, Party, Intelligent

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• I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Pensar, Mundo, Querer

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying.

  James Marsters

  Waiting, Trying, Minutes

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• What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.

  Justin Broadrick

  Technology, Thinking, Luxury

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Crudo al principio [el relato corto] recibió un pulido literario en la prensa, pero su cualidad dominante se mantuvo. Era conciso y condensado, pero sugerente. Era deliciosamente extravagante, o un milagro del eufemismo.

  Bret Harte

  Miracle, Quality, Stories

  Bret Harte (2001). “The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings”, p.218, Penguin

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• A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Laughing, Scary

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• 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.

  Maureen Lipman

  Workout, Exercise, Training

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

  Eric Roth

  Thinking, Screenwriters

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• Un buen símil, tan conciso como la declaración de amor de un rey.

  Laurence Sterne

  Kings, Simile, Declaration

  Laurence Sterne (1790). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.221

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• As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

  Zac Posen

  Compradores

  "Five things I know about style: Zac Posen". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• ¿Una persona negra es afroamericana? No. Hay hispanos que tienen la piel muy, muy oscura, así que la palabra ha perdido su significado, no es una palabra muy concisa o adecuada para usar incluso hoy en día y no lo era entonces.

  Pam Grier

  Dark, African American, Black

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• There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.

  Andrew Bird

  Cantar, Escribir, Pensar

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• 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.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Scarcity, Credit

  Thomas Paine (1830). “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”, p.405

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• Quizá el resumen más conciso de la iluminación sería: trascender el dualismo ... El dualismo es la división conceptual del mundo en categorías ... la percepción humana es por naturaleza un fenómeno dualista - lo que hace que la búsqueda de la iluminación sea una lucha cuesta arriba, por decir lo menos.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Struggle, Perception, Enlightenment

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• Tácito ha escrito una obra entera sobre las costumbres de los germanos. Esta obra es corta, pero sale de la pluma de Tácito, que siempre fue conciso, porque lo veía todo de un vistazo.

  Tacitus

  Saws, Manners, Glances

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• También intento disciplinarme cuando me encuentro en una situación... e intento pensar una respuesta, en lugar de ser verborreico, que es una tendencia que tengo, a ser conciso. La verborrea lleva a cosas poco claras, inarticuladas.

  Dan Quayle

  Thinking, Discipline, Trying

  Los Angeles Times (attributed to an earlier Associated Press interview), October 30, 1988.

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• De toda elocuencia, un apodo es el más conciso; de todos los argumentos, el más incontestable.

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Argument, Eloquence

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.219

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• El Décimo Mandamiento envía un mensaje a los socialistas, a los igualitaristas, a las personas obsesionadas con la justicia, a los candidatos presidenciales estadounidenses del año 2000: a todos los que creen que la riqueza debe redistribuirse. Y ese mensaje es claro y conciso: Váyanse al infierno.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Years, America

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• No funciona en absoluto. Ése es el problema. Es un interminable y vacilante desfile de inspecciones, sobornos y tonterías... pero si estás a bordo de un barco de Texas, encontrarás menos inconvenientes por el camino." "¡Es por sus armas!" declaró el señor Henderson, escapando una vez más de su ensueño, saliendo de él como para boquear en busca de aire. "Conciso, mi amor". La señora Henderson le dedicó una sonrisa. "Y correcto. Los tejanos están fuertemente armados y suelen ser impacientes. No necesitan estar transportando armas y pólvora para crear una gran molestia a cualquiera que los detenga, así que tienden a ser detenidos... con menos frecuencia.

  Cherie Priest

  Gun, Air, Texas

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

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• Se llama Primera Enmienda. ...Palabras sencillas marchando en filas seriadas. Compactas, concisas. Al grano. Claro y puro. Es la música de la libertad.

  Jack Valenti

  Simple, Primeros, Censura

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