| Eksempel: | - There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians.
- Nobles do not exist merely because there is a peerage system. Even if there were no peerage system, there will be people who are naturally dominant and who will quickly rise to nobility. So much for our nobility then. Why, we are mere peasants.
- At that time, bicycles were just starting to get popular and, here and there, there were many unskilled beginners who ran into people and broke through their hedges.
- Centuries later, there were more humans in outer space than there were on Earth.
- Im glad we didnt go there because there were some localized heavy rain showers.
- The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
- The implication was that where there was a well, there were residents.
- Since there were living men until now, there never was another Confucius.
- I was getting close to the summit, but there was a boulder in my way, and I was almost done in trying to get over it. Sometimes there were loose rocks all over the place, too.
- Centuries ago, there were merely 200 countries in the world; today in the 23rd century, there are over 1000.
- When I came to the ticket office at 8 in the morning there were many people there already. Some of them had come at 6. So I didnt get the tickets I had promised Peter.
- In the room there were four boys, who were playing cards.
- At that time in the courts of the feudal lords there were many scholars who engaged in discrimination, such as the followers of Xun Kuang, who wrote books that were disseminated throughout the whole world.
- Before the conquest by the Arabians, the majority of the Persians were Zoroastrians, but there were also Jews and Christians. So, who could imagine today that Iranians have Jewish or Christian ancestors?
- I looked up a song I liked from a movie in YouTube and there were countless remixes; I was surprised at how many were hits!
- Also, I used to wonder what would happen if I were to travel along the earth or on a road in a straight line for a very great distance. Would I eventually end up against a card-board wall which constituted a small part of the great card-board box which enclosed the universe? And if so, what was beyond it? Perhaps there were more card-board boxes, all stacked up inside an even greater card-board box. When you make a theory that depends on another theory which in turn depends on another, this is the sort of conclusion you may form. It is one of the major pitfalls of linear thinking which can wreak havok with your interpretation of social situations.
- If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
- During centuries of space exploration, there were strange, unexplained anomalies that were linked to possible nonhuman sentient life.
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