Before Quotes
21465 quotes by 9797 authors
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The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing…
— Al Gore
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We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are…
— Alfred W. Crosby
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Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
— Horace
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Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth
— Desmond Tutu
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Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes…
— Chris Huhne
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We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be…
— Jonathon Porritt
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Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
— Lewis Mumford
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Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.
— Susan Jeffers
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Before falling to the scythe the weeds enjoy a little breeze.
— Peter Levitt
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Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured…
— Beryl Markham
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Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
— Mark Twain
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The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A scientist cannot do…
— Sune Bergstrom
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And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock…
— Alan Keyes
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Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.
— Jacob Zuma
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We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So…
— Jim Cooper
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The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the…
— Thomas Paine
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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses...
— Lucy Larcom
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True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
— David Gerrold
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