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965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before… — Henry Ford
Persecutors are almost always former Victims. — David Emerald Womeldorff
The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment,… — Victor Davis Hanson
The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent… — Victor Davis Hanson
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking… — A. J. Jacobs
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a… — Guy Kawasaki
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations… — Al-Kindi
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved… — Jim Garrison
I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him. — Kenneth Noland
At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path,… — Carolyn Hart
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or… — Chip Kidd
Occasionally pick up speed-for 2 minutes, tops-then settle back into your former pace. Sometimes this is all you need to snap out of a mental… — Mark Plaatjes
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area… — T.E. Lawrence
There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do… — Stella Benson
Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to… — Samuel Palmer
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. — Bela Lugosi
We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families… — Arthur Murray
Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former presidents;… — Nancy Gibbs
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between… — Stephen Potter
Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies. — Felix Morley
Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we… — LZ Granderson
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former. — David Bentley Hart
Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions. — Stephen F. Lynch
I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy? — Victor Cruz

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