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153 Hitherto quotes by 130 unique authors
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The story of American wrestling at its greatest is the story of its most illustrious champion, Frank Gotch. He dominated the field. Through his extraordinary…
— Unknown Author
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It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling…
— Hjalmar Schacht
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There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you,…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an…
— Clara E. Laughlin
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The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they…
— John Foxe
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We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Promptly peerless, hitherto peerless and hence peerless.
— Bret Hart
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually…
— Oliver Lodge
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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting…
— George Washington
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O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid…
— Jeremy Bentham
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Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face…
— Jane Austen
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The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume,…
— J C Ryle
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Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills…
— George Will
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices…
— Georges Bizet
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then…
— Bertrand Russell
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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
— Cedric Price
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For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes…
— Helen Vendler
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Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with…
— Abraham Maslow
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I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing…
— Edmund Burke
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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much…
— Thomas Malthus
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are…
— Claude Bernard
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Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real…
— C.S. Lewis
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Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these…
— Isaac Newton
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