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

Greatest, Liberty, Gift

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

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

Love, Person, Else

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

Down, Around, Times

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

Leader, Vision, Buy

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

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

Time, History, Young

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Saint Patrick

Deep, Compassion, High

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

As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.
Jesus Christ

God, Living, Everyone

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

Love, Risk, Suffer

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

Future, Long, Happens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Motto, Speak, Criticism

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Terry Pratchett

Life, True, Die

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee

Courage, Real, Through

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

Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.
Jesus Christ

God, Give, Shall

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, Compassion, Beginning

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
David Herbert Lawrence

Hard, Away, Won

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
Henry Rollins

Hope, Person, Last

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

Down, Find, Far

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Denis Waitley

Integrity, Line, Consider

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