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Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how… — Henry Ward Beecher
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! — Walt Whitman
There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Be just before you are generous. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of… — Abraham Lincoln
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow [sic] which can be done… — Abraham Lincoln
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out… — Abraham Lincoln
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick,… — Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so. — Adolf Hitler
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
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
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
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
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. — Sandra Day O'Connor
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
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant
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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