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I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for… — David Ginola
It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration… — Montel Williams
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. — Thomas Carlyle
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… — Thomas Jefferson
Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that… — Malcolm X
... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… — Joseph Addison
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — Simone de Beauvoir
Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are… — John Abizaid
Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was… — Olga Korbut
Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that,… — Harry Reid
Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off… — Dave Barry
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a… — Arthur W. Pink
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. — Samuel Johnson
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he… — Leonardo da Vinci
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence:… — Octavio Paz
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions… — Simon Newcomb

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