Best Earlier Sayings
751 Earlier quotes by 651 unique authors
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The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and…
— Unknown Author
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This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science and…
— Pope Pius XI
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The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is…
— Unknown Author
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Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].…
— Unknown Author
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The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil…
— Gerald Holton
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I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in…
— Penelope Lively
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In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly. It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier…
— Unknown Author
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In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on,…
— Albert Einstein
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As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong…
— John F. Kerry
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There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing…
— Amy Poehler
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We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.
— Barry Ferguson
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Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq
— Conan O'Brien
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I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but…
— Norman Mailer
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Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very…
— Michael Milken
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Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is…
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being…
— Hannah Arendt
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I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits,…
— Gary Becker
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Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic…
— David Suzuki
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It…
— Eric Clapton
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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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