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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the… — Criss Jami
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ...… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away. — William Faulkner
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be… — John Dos Passos
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be… — Barney Frank
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.… — Benjamin Franklin
History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer… — Frank Gaffney
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. — Henry George
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. — William Godwin
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions… — Stephen Jay Gould
I got approached by SoBe a few months ago about being an ambassador and I learned about the previous ones including Naomi Campbell, so I… — Ellie Goulding
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. — Ulysses S. Grant
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. — Confucius
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. — Bill Cosby
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Most people ask me questions based on a previous interview. That's not an interview. It's like they're just saying my quotes back to me. — Kirsten Dunst
For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is… — Chris Hadfield
When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have… — David Hockney
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear. — C L R James

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