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965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

...protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind… — Liona Boyd
What I have related is sufficient for establishing the main principle, namely, that the heat which disappears in the conversion of water into vapour, is… — Joseph Black
Old friend, there are peopleâ€”young and oldâ€”that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am… — John D. MacDonald
I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for… — Richard Wurmbrand
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in… — G. Edward Griffin
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between… — Charles Lyell
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing… — Charles Caleb Colton
In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is… — John Dewey
I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you… — Charles Spurgeon
I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't… — Torii Hunter
It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the… — Robert Fisk
Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the… — George Lois
...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and… — Unknown Author
As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions. — Elton Gallegly
As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked -- referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking… — Margaret Thatcher
My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in… — Robyn Carr
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The… — Samuel P. Huntington
A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. — Henri Poincare

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