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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays. ↗

— Bruno Rossi

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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment. ↗

— Willie Aames

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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I'm aware of the writers who have previously received the Gold Dagger and I'm honoured to have my name on the same page. ↗

— Gene Kerrigan

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Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it. ↗

— John Shadegg

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There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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