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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur. — Edmund Husserl
I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very… — Tyson Gay
Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who… — Alan Dershowitz
I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance. — Melvin Belli
Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice. — Sydney Thompson Dobell
I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of… — Jimmy Page
To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what… — Buddy Rich
Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen… — Colson Whitehead
In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead… — Colson Whitehead
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I… — Colson Whitehead
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. — Colson Whitehead
You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I'm for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes… — Jerry Falwell
When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through… — Kenneth Copeland
To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and… — Noam Chomsky
The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one… — Twyla Tharp
There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in. — Michael Connelly
I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with… — Janet Evanovich
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that… — Nora Roberts
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world… — Clement Attlee
We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country. — Clement Attlee
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of… — Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning....… — Boyd K. Packer
At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can 'see' things that… — Boyd K. Packer

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