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  • Edmund Burke The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Jean Paul The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • William Mcgovern The fact that it had never been done before made it even more irresistible.
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Sir James Goldsmith The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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  • Bobby Flay The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bobby Scott The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Deming The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
    Two essays: On anger, New men, new women : some thoughts on nonviolence
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Armstrong Williams The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The heart always sees before than the head can see.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Albert Einstein The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Robert Frost The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Barney Frank The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Akhenaton The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Mark Twain The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lord Acton The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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