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If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe. ↗

— Jim Talent

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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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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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You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

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The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me. ↗

— Peter Cetera

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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

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History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

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My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. ↗

— James Rainwater

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

— Samuel Alexander

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