Preceding Quotes

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Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and… — Lyman Abbott
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period — Francis Parker Yockey
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with… — Gottfried Leibniz
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this… — Richard J. Foster
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. — George Oppen
Each succeeding generation of Gods follow the example of the preceding ones: each generation have their wives, who raise up from the fruit of their… — Orson Pratt
Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. — George S. Clason
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so… — Prosper of Aquitaine
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie… — Victor Hugo
The week preceding the game is just as important, if not more important, to prepare yourself mentally to make sure you know the ins and… — Tedy Bruschi
It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at… — Jennifer Granholm
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. — George Leigh Mallory
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. — Oliver Goldsmith
We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we… — Regis Debray
The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.' — C.S. Lewis
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote. — Arthur Schopenhauer
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair

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