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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Life, Happiness, Single

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

Ignorance, Lives

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Constantin Stanislavski

Nothing, Talent, Attention

I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.
NeNe Leakes

Legal, Shoes, Name

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
Hugh Sidey

Words, Risk, Ideas

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
Neil Innes

Success, Best, Big

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
William Bligh

Nature, Thought, Her

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.
Cy Young

Since, Finally, Fellows

One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.
Justin Zackham

Down, Pretty, Before

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