Before Quotes
21465 quotes by 9797 authors
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We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done…
— Charles Dickens
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Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived…
— James Joyce
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Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a…
— Thomas Boswell
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And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end and Randy Moss…
— Mike Penner
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Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am…
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.
— Richard A. Clarke
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Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'
— Garry Wills
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world,…
— Torbjorn Tannsjo
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described…
— Unknown Author
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Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself…
— Eli Broad
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Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
— David Bach
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After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial…
— Suze Orman
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To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It…
— George Porter
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When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I…
— Richard Branson
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This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically.…
— Deepak Chopra
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How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
— Leo Baekeland
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