“ Dodgiest car - hard to choose between the Trabant and a Model T previously owned by Laurel and Hardy. ”
- Nick Mason- Copy
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“ I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that. ”
- John Howard- Copy
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“ Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
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“ Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. ”
- Sir Joshua Reynolds- Copy
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“ Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. ”
- Erwin Rommel- Copy
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“ The search for truth begins with the doubt of all 'truths' in which one has previously believed. ”
- Frederich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. ”
- David Armistead- Copy
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“ The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ At first people found a few diamonds in the yellow clay, and they were delighted with their good fortune, even while they supposed that this was to be the full extent of their find. Then, upon digging deeper, they came upon the blue clay, and, to their amazement, they then found as many precious stones in a day as they had previously found in a year, and what had formerly seemed like wealth faded into insignificance beside the new riches… ”
- Emmet Fox- Copy
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“ Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept. ”
- Chris Wedge- Copy
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“ Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafes full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers… ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
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“ To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. ”
- Erwin Rommel- Copy
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“ Science … warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ”
- Thomas Huxley- Copy
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“ INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent — as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us. The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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