“ A sense of the value of time… is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. ”
- Edward Weston- Copy
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“ Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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“ The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation. ”
- Michel De Certeau- Copy
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“ Set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired. ”
- John La Farge- Copy
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“ Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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“ The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here. ”
- Finley Peter Dunne- Copy
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“ It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. ”
- Bill Vaughan- Copy
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“ In our day (though not in earlier times) technical solutions are always welcome. ”
- Garrett Hardin- Copy
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“ You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved. ”
- David Cronenberg- Copy
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“ Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. ”
- Earl Warren- Copy
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“ In fact, it's more dangerous to fly in space in America now than it was earlier. It certainly is more expensive...more difficult,... We've been relying on our taxpayer-funded research organization, Na Say, excuse me, NASA. ”
- Burt Rutan- Copy
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“ The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year. ”
- John Fiske- Copy
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“ By March 1918, Lenin's Bolshevik regime, then just five months old, had knowingly killed more of its political opponents than Czarist Russia had in the whole preceding century. ”
- Tony Judt- Copy
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“ A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time. ”
- Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle- Copy
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