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An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might… — Bertrand Russell
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one… — Stephen Jay Gould
Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on local farms for… — Homaro Cantu
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than… — LZ Granderson
I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought ,in my previous career in a… — Jessica Clark
With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on. — Salman Khan
In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much… — Robert Fogel
Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including… — Anne Sweeney
Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic. — Brian Greene
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct. — Brian Greene
Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes. — Lech Walesa
At the Centers for Disease Control, I rose up fairly quickly into management positions. The first team I led there included many people who had… — Helene D. Gayle
In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art. — Edi Rama
William O. Douglas married not one, not two, not three, but four hot blondes. He was not faithful to any of them, not even the… — Noah Feldman
Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the… — Martin Jacques
Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in… — Eskinder Nega
When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation… — Rose George
The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP, might have enough… — Peter Higgs
The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving… — Kapil Dev
FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones. — Bill Dedman

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