Best Earlier Proverbs
751 Earlier quotes by 651 unique authors
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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and…
— Plato
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Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite…
— Richard Hugo
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There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
— Bertrand Russell
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According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.
— Pal Benko
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I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up…
— Joe Perry
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The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those…
— John Pople
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.
— John Pople
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We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to…
— Rodrigo Rato
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I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New…
— Piper Perabo
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In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of…
— Colin Robinson
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...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but…
— Jack Handey
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Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they…
— Unknown Author
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When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier,…
— Fred Lebow
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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up…
— George Bernard Shaw
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All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own…
— Stephen Covey
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A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there…
— Sigmund Freud
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Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered
— Robert A. Dahl
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The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin.
— David Bach
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I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation…
— Nigel Rees
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If I were going to put my money on it, I would bet that by 2050—hopefully earlier—we’ll have found that more than 80 percent of…
— Paul W. Ewald
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Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by…
— Dava Sobel
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When you meet someone you love, then you change for good. That’s why the other person will never know or understand the earlier you, and…
— Michael Marshall Smith
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Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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