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  • Beeban Kidron For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Allen Tate For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Aristotle For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Margaret Mead For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.
    Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    British actor (1988 - )
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  • Katherine F. Gerould Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
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  • T. S. Eliot Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Alexander Pope Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Ann Veneman Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • I Ching Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Alan Cohen Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
    As quoted in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Ali Smith Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Ben Johnson Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched it?... O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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