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That is an easy, inaccurate shorthand for what we are trying to do. – Andrew Neil	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The mistake was I should have put the lying to the FBI in a separate line referencing his plea, instead, I put it together and it made all you guys go crazy. A tweet is shorthand. – John Dowd	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 9 years ago
This is something that I cherish. Once in a friend's home I came across this blessing, and took it down in shorthand ... it says something I like to live with Oh Thou, who dwellest in so many homes, possess Thyself of this. Bless the life that is sheltered here. Grant that trust and peace and comfort abide within, and that love and life and usefulness may go out from this home forever. – Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language. – Charles Scribner, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 14 years ago

That is an easy, inaccurate shorthand for what we are trying to do.

– Andrew Neil

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The mistake was I should have put the lying to the FBI in a separate line referencing his plea, instead, I put it together and it made all you guys go crazy. A tweet is shorthand.

– John Dowd

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

– Charles Baudelaire

added by anonymous
9 years ago

This is something that I cherish. Once in a friend's home I came across this blessing, and took it down in shorthand ... it says something I like to live with Oh Thou, who dwellest in so many homes, possess Thyself of this. Bless the life that is sheltered here. Grant that trust and peace and comfort abide within, and that love and life and usefulness may go out from this home forever.

– Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.

– Charles Scribner, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

– Leo Tolstoy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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