Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain…
— Noam Chomsky
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What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is…
— Al Gore
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If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
— Mary Frances Berry
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The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not…
— Andrey Kapitsa
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How much damage will have been done before we act?
— John McCain
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It is often the case that laws must change before fears about change dissipate.
— Hillary Clinton
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For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three decades of rising…
— Peter Lilley
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery…
— Roald Dahl
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I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.
— Muhammad Ali
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Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.
— Freeman Dyson
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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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