“Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It merely says, and I quote, 'equality of rights shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex,”
Carolyn Maloney
“I made an audio tape of my book, which I think is really excellent, although it's an abridged version of the book.”
Fran Drescher
“ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”
Blaise Pascal
“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.”
William Blake
“How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms”
Aristotle