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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck

Religion, Strength, May

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
Ann Coulter

Hurt, Hate, She

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
Spike Lee

Times, Ourselves, Censor

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
John Malkovich

Life, Children, Remember

I don't remember my life before I had children.
John Malkovich

Life, Children, Remember

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.
Snoop Dogg

Change, Music, Here

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.
John Olver

Life, Good, Emotional

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale

Wise, Heart, Strange

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
David Attenborough

Travel, Order, Navy

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Truth, Learning, Bit

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
Robert Bork

Equality, Law, Purpose

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather

Age, Writer, Works

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
Horace Walpole

Age, Old, Youth

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
Thierry Henry

Hurt, Yourself, Sleep

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.
Peter Singer

God, Human, Belief

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Religion, Experience

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.
John Mayer

Nothing, Mean, Down

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.
Helena Bonham Carter

Easy, Kids, Quality

I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.
Shaun White

Night, Pretty, Big

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.
Henry Louis Gates

America, American, Able

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
Henri Matisse

Nature, Yourself, Start

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
Sachin Tendulkar

Heart, Cricket, After

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Else, Boxing, Knew

I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.
Jimmy Carr

Love, Woman, Idea

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
Jack Nicholson

Thinking, Start, Anxiety

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.
Rob Lowe

Wife, Greatest, Human

Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.
William J. Clinton

Remember, After, Debt

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
Sally Ride

Space, Accident, Shuttle

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
Sally Ride

Knowledge, Training, Takes

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
Sally Ride

Couple, Flight, Assigned

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