Former Quotes

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My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends.… — Margaret Cho
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change,… — Eldridge Cleaver
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state… — Sulak Sivaraksa
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for… — William J. Clinton
We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were… — Richard Branson
If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us. — Dan Seals
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and… — Charles Spurgeon
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are… — Paul Weyrich
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere… — Rebecca West
Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former. — Sun Tzu
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help… — Erich Fromm
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by… — Edwin Paxton Hood
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser
Remain strong in your faith, as you were in former years. In this faith, in its close-knit unity our people to-day goes straight forward on… — Adolf Hitler
A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just… — James F. Amos
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. — William Hazlitt
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being… — John Maynard Keynes
My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars. — Bobby Hull
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be… — Hannah Arendt

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