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If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot. — Che Guevara
The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least… — William B. Davis
The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all into… — Brian Swimme
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,… — William Blackstone
The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on… — Jill Abramson
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal… — Mark Spitz
Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital… — Jonathan Ive
If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible. — Pep Guardiola
Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine… — George Orwell
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment… — Unknown Author
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines)… — Guy Davenport
The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a… — Maria Montessori
There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we havenâ€™t solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis, — Mark Mobius
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biologyâ€™s last twenty years has inflamed… — Niles Eldredge
In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will… — Charles Holland Duell
Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor… — Piers Corbyn
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it… — Jack Valenti
Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in… — Ian K. Smith
To walk, we have to lean forward, lose our balance and begin to fall. We let go constantly of the previous stability, falling all the… — Robin Skynner
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements… — Hermann Weyl

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