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There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.
Hillary Clinton

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
Hillary Clinton

Politics, Society, Husband

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Stephen Hawking

Time, Travel, Science

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H. P. Lovecraft

Live, Sleep, Week

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Risk, Suffer

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.
Justin Bieber

Crazy, Done, Night

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Greatest, Liberty, Gift

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman

Faith, Great, Future

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden

Love, Person, Else

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge

Down, Road, Sure

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Future, Long, Happens

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Loyalty, Down, Around

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden

Through, Away, Minds

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Golda Meir

Fight, Place, Sea

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
Andy Warhol

Life, Thought, Living

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Down, Around, Times

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rude, Met, Slam

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Ourselves, Finally

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.
Kobe Bryant

Ego, Basketball, Black

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
Dave Brubeck

Mistakes, Play, Chance

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Human, Person, Aware

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

Truth, Lie, Child

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Time, History, Made

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happy, Hearts, Possess

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
E. M. Forster

Motto, Speak, Criticism

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens

Idea, Ghost, Explain

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John C. Maxwell

Leader, Vision, Buy

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

Parents, Long, Lost

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