“ One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. ”
- Max Weber- Copy
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“ Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for pre-eminence. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pre-test your product with consumers, and pre-test your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
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“ The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ We don't have enough time to pre-meditate all our actions. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
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“ Britney and I show a little tummy and it's like, 'Oh My God.' But N'Sync or Backstreet Boys will do repeated pelvic thrusts to an audience of pre-pubescent girls and nobody says anything! ”
- Christina Aguilera- Copy
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“ If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders… then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect. ”
- David Davis- Copy
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“ I'm not particularly pre-occupied with the husband / baby thing. Besides I have a dog. ”
- Calista Flockhart- Copy
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“ A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
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“ It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand … I was quite tired after spending a full day working. ”
- Rosa Parks- Copy
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“ We are not a post-war generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming. ”
- Corrie ten Boom- Copy
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“ I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing… ”
- Emma Jung- Copy
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“ No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women, silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
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“ It seems most probable, that the many pre-existent streams in each river basin concentrated their water in a single channel of overflow, and that this one channel survives- a fine example of natural selection. ”
- William Morris Davis- Copy
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“ If a visitor from Mars came to planet earth and wouldn't get anything else to know about Europe other than the EU household, he would believe that Europe was a pre-modern continent where nothing was more important than agriculture. ”
- Joschka Fischer- Copy
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“ A lot of Christians today are tired of losing. The traditional pessimillennialists have issued a clarion call: Come join us; we're historical losers. They have built their institutions by attracting people who are content to remain historical losers. ”
- Gary North- Copy
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“ How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'Your too small Pre', 'Your not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I have to win. ”
- Steve Prefontaine- Copy
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“ The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. ”
- Nancy Pelosi- Copy
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“ Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time…not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break… ”
- Charles Chic Thompson- Copy
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“ Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced. Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure. ”
- Ernst T. Krebs Jr.- Copy
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“ Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal… ”
- Wright C. Mills- Copy
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“ We must avoid here two complementary errors: on the one hand that the world has a unique, intrinsic, pre-existing structure awaiting our grasp; and on the other hand that the world is in utter chaos. The first error is that of the student who marvelled at how the astronomers could find out the true names of distant constellations… ”
- R. Abel- Copy
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“ Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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