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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
Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before. — Richard A. Clarke
Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.' — Garry Wills
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force. — Carrie Chapman Catt
Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists? — Alexis de Tocqueville
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
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
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
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
Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially. — David Bach
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
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
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
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
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success. — Leo Baekeland
I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be… — Thomas A. Edison
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that… — Thomas A. Edison
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before. — Judi Dench
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds… — Sarah Josepha Hale
Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world. — Emma Goldman
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act. — George Washington
Democracy is moral before it is political. — Louis D. Brandeis
The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms… — Unknown Author
Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation. — Mary Robinson
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead… — Benjamin Tucker

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