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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
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- Richard Ford
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- Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Richard Ford: documented activity in 1976. Wikidata Q547794, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q547794 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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