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751 Earlier quotes by 651 unique authors
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No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been named as the…
— Nadine Strossen
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
— Umberto Eco
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As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
— Andrzej Wajda
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The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and…
— Kirk Ferentz
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The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter…
— Tony Blair
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We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment,…
— Peter London
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But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots…
— Unknown Author
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In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army.…
— Jean Paul
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As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I…
— Chris Ware
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an…
— Walter Pater
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We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.
— Steve Wozniak
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Kids today are much more independant than their parents were. We're really into getting jobs and we mature sexually much earlier than a generation ago.…
— Phoebe Cates
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Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings…
— Melanie Klein
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One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it
— David Hilbert
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One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again…
— John Fund
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Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to…
— Michelle Obama
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It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs…
— Emile Durkheim
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... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.
— William Safire
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The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences…
— Chalmers Johnson
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I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not…
— Russell Wilson
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For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now,…
— Brian Mulroney
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You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine…
— Randy Travis
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I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be,…
— Richard Russo
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Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
— Margaret Thatcher
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