“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind”
John Maynard Keynes
“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
Winston Churchill
“That is remarkable. While it is intriguing, it is preliminary and we'll look for other studies to confirm the finding. Then, we need basic science to figure out how it is helping.”
Dallas Anderson
“No funding agency would fund it. We are starting preliminary studies on the smaller project to know what we should do.”
Pat Stefano
“This is just a preliminary study of this facility,”
Charles Handy
“I think the most important point of this preliminary study is that obese individuals may have a lower threshold for pain [possibly due to chronic inflammation associated with obesity], which is not evident if we rely solely on self-report of pain.”
Charles Emery
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
Walter Bagehot
