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«Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
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«This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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as yet, chest, conservatism, contemporary, denial, extremes, once again, overwhelmed, phases, subsequent, titanic
«Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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«The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent Philosophers for many ages. As a man, we may believe him admitted to the communion of saints; but as a philosopher he needs a long residence in a scientific purgatory»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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purgatory, residence, residences, subsequent
«Rhetoric . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous and passionate.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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precedent, rhetoric, sensuous, subsequent
«I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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decline, engagement, engagements, owing, subsequent
«Who knows truly? Who here will declare whence it arose, whence this creation? The gods are subsequent to the creation of this. Who, then, knows whence it has come into being?»
Author: Rig Veda
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