Prevailed Quotes
68 Prevailed quotes by 59 unique authors
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I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now…
— Gerhard Richter
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Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this…
— Augustus De Morgan
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving…
— Fanny Kemble
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The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be…
— Michael Coren
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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
— Edward Gibbon
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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally…
— Edward Gibbon
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Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were…
— Gunter Grass
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
— Charles Darwin
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
— Dan Quayle
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From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief…
— Jane Austen
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The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by…
— Edward Gibbon
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They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,…
— Marcel Proust
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She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and…
— Jane Austen
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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make…
— John Newton
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I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most…
— Susan Cain
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I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this…
— Pete Doherty
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I…
— Barbara Tuchman
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