Quotes with pre-eminent

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  • Carolyn McCarthy Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Camille Paglia Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bob Edwards Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • C. L. R. James The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Caleb Cushing The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Adam Clarke The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Winston Churchill The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • C. Everett Koop The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • George Mikes The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.
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  • Anne Seward Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Caleb Cushing Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Beeban Kidron We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Bill Hader When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Beanie Sigel You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
    Beanie Sigel
    American rapper and actor (1974 - )
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