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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James

Men, Lives, Ideas

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
Hillary Clinton

Future, Children, Wish

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Aldous Huxley

Knowledge, Thought, Against

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
Steve Prefontaine

Music, Beautiful, Words

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Necessary, Suffers

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud

Find, Poet, Everywhere

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
Bill Copeland

Home, Week, Stay

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Aesop

Truth, Two, Both

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
Dolly Parton

Hope, Home, Husband

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo

Changing, River, Images

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn

Work, Great, Failure

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
Al Lopez

Life, Love, Best

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats

Love, Truth, Die

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo

Mind, Long, Sight

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Evil, Nothing, Foolish

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Everything, Compassion

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Bad, Useful

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pain, Laughter, Thought

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Thomas Szasz

Learning, Children, Why

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Child, Born, Ignorant

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle

Heart, Head, Sees

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Age, Happy, Days

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank

Mind, Book, Rather

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Time, History, Made

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
Hillary Clinton

Training, Service, Next

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor Swift

Friends, After, Talk

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Hell, Choice, Getting

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
John Berger

Rich, Poverty, Priorities

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.
Kobe Bryant

After, Place, Broken

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman

Hope, History, Ignorance

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