Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn’t get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.
– Karen Swallow Prior
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- The end must justify the means. – Matthew Prior
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- It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described. – Willard Van Orman Quine
- Love tickles parts of you that, prior to its influence, you didn’t even know could feel. – Richelle E Goodrich
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- Prior Planning Produces Positive Performance – Salley Farquharson
- All that you areforever to Be,Is prior to…and just beyondInfinity. – Leland Lewis
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- The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men. – Steven Pinker
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