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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#before #being #first #gone #had

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#ayn #ayn rand #before #believe #facts

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web. ↗

— Philip Greenspun

#better #experiences #had #i #ideas

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#difficult #guitar #kid #more #other

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. ↗

— Pope Gregory VII

#exile #hated #i #iniquity #justice

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#continuing #either #emphasis #find #got

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#before #being #believe #bit #did

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. ↗

— George Grey

#another #arrival #been #before #cargo

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society. ↗

— John Grierson

#appreciation #attend #changes #creative #forces

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#before #feel #often #secret #told