“ Let me entreat you, gentlemen, on your part not to take any measures which, viewed in the calm light of reason, will lessen the dignity and sully the glory you have hitherto maintained. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. ”
- Max Beerbohm- Copy
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“ This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
- 835
“ The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 300
“ I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 616
“ Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to true. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions… . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world… … ”
- Hector St. John de Crevecoeur- Copy
- 546
“ Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard of power… ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
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“ The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. ”
- David Hilbert- Copy
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“ It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ What is wanted — whether this is admitted or not — is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual. One never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto… ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon? ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery. ”
- C. C. Colton- Copy
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“ The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition — God knows which — dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road. ”
- Samuel Hahnemann- Copy
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