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965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God.… — Rachel Held Evans
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when… — Galileo Galilei
In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown… — Michael K. Simpson
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter,… — William Shenstone
When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm… — John Climacus
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The power of theocrasy or exercise of government rule over the masses by a hierarchy of priests or adepts rested on its dual system of… — Edith Starr Miller
I always live in the present. I donâ€™t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of… — Fernando Pessoa
Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be… — Eknath Easwaran
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a… — Marianne Williamson
Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies… — Alfie Kohn
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except… — Aristotle
Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win. — Corey Koskie
The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice… — George Washington
As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for… — Brad Alan Lewis
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called… — Abraham Maslow
They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly… — Jonathan Swift
I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'. — Kerry Packer
In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied… — Laurence Silberman

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