“ Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants. ”
- Booker T. Washington- Copy
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“ I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. ”
- Alain de Botton- Copy
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“ We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our previous experiences. ”
- Dennis Kimbro- Copy
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“ I worked with a wild leopard, who bit me. But I kept on working with him, because I have a wild side. I think I was an animal in a previous life. ”
- Bai Ling- Copy
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“ What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline. ”
- Henry Parry Liddon- Copy
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“ The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy! ”
- Larry Williams- Copy
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“ One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it. ”
- Anne Germain De Stael- Copy
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“ I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. ”
- Harvey Spencer Lewis- Copy
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“ The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
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“ It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record. ”
- John Blasik- 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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“ Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool as been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? ”
- St. Jerome- Copy
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“ History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking. ”
- Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky- Copy
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“ It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium. ”
- Charles Muses- Copy
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“ No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
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“ Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ”
- Robert Baden Powell- Copy
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“ Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc. ”
- James Cameron- Copy
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“ The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement… they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans. ”
- Dan Hicks- Copy
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“ Rick' is its own piece, but yet it is this curious reflection on the cave wall of 'Rigoletto.' And 'Rigoletto' was an adaptation of a previous play by Victor Hugo. To me it's always a surprise how modern 'Rigoletto' is because of the ambiguities: Rigoletto is a jester, he's compromised, but he's also charismatic and interesting… ”
- Bill Pullman- Copy
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“ I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't. ”
- Steve Largent- Copy
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“ I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
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