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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;… — Leo Tolstoy
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. — Igor Stravinsky
The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings… — H.G. Wells
Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And… — Franklin P. Adams
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of… — Arthur David Ritchie
The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that… — James Madison
I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in… — Timothy Leary
Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who… — Susan Jacoby
I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a long way too… — Michael Davies
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the… — Richard P. Feynman
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and… — Shirley Hazzard
Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,… — George Orwell
When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed… — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source… — Frank Chodorov
Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own… — Martin Fleischmann
The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They… — Dane Rudhyar
The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some… — W. W. Rouse Ball

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