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21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
— Mark Twain
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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
— Mark Twain
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Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
— Elsa Maxwell
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This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you…
— Elaine Stritch
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of…
— Ernest Rutherford
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The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.
— Sylvia Earle
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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far…
— Paul Broca
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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
— Laurence J. Peter
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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
— Mark Twain
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The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is…
— Aristotle
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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
— Dorothy Parker
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We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.
— Deepak Chopra
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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
— Mark Twain
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Every fashion, the fashion before: in a duller dress.
— Dorothy Parker
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and…
— Bertrand Russell
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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles…
— Tennessee Williams
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The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
— Seneca the Younger
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It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery…
— Robertson Davies
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I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers…
— Cesar Chavez
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Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness…
— Cesar Chavez
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Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
— John Sterling
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I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
— Groucho Marx
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