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965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

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
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

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