Quotes 501 till 520 of 942.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
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Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
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Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.
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Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
Source: White Noise (2015) 126 -
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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Men are better companions before their success than after it, for they have so much more leisure.
Source: Commonplace book
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