The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors,… — Origen Copy Share Image
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Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
First and foremost, you do not have to live up to or emulate the lives of any of your predecessors. But at… — Yuri Kochiyama Copy Share Image
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Look back to 1948 when the British Medical Association denounced Aneurin Bevan as 'a would-be Führer' for wanting them to join a… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
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Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
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Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor. — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
I know that there are scores of people plotting to kill me, and this is not difficult to understand. After all, did… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
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