The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.
I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers.
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.
Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.
I feel great, very healthy and alive and really happy that I can remember yesterday and I can remember the day before.
Fluted sleeves or any sleeve that flares out before coming in again at the wrist are very feminine and a great way to distract from the dreaded 'bingo wings.'
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
