Before Quotes
21465 quotes by 10285 authors
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The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity…
— John Quincy Adams
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,…
— George Washington
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A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to…
— Ronald Reagan
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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the…
— Jan Carlzon
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To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we…
— Nhat Hanh
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I…
— Michelangelo
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I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
— Adolf Hitler
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Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East.... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled.... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to…
— George W. Bush
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Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.
— Richard Dawkins
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If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work;…
— Albert Einstein
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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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There is a light at the end of the tunnel but first you'll have to find the light switch and change the bulb before switching…
— Tim Field
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
— Will Durant
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I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions,…
— David Korten
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The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists…
— Thomas Kuhn
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There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of…
— David Attenborough
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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole…
— Italo Svevo
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With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where…
— Eckhart Tolle
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