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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.


Mary Astell


#assist #attainment #courted #difficulties #discouragements

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.


Douglas Adams


#cry #fact #hitherto #i #indeed

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.


Ibrahim Babangida


#assumptions #choice #dictated #driven #economy

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.


Fredrik Bajer


#conference #could #effectively #established #expressed

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.


Max Beerbohm


#been #doing #done #frequently #given

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.


David Hilbert


#branches #construction #developed #disclosed #does

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.


Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


#also #centuries #coffee #different #discovery

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.


Jay Alan Sekulow


#always #been #bondage #constitution #endeavor

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.


Milan Kundera


#existence #hitherto #immoral #knowledge #morality

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.


Tony Campolo


#behavior #concept #condemned #feel #freud