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965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee,… — Ben Macintyre
Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future… — Bob Wise
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former — Alfred Armand Montapert
If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former… — Richard Moss
Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the… — Hal Elrod
Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying… — Richard Doll
One of the most beautiful verses in the Bible about Heaven is in the 21st chapter of Revelation, the fourth verse. John says, And God… — David Berg
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the… — Thomas Carlyle
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins… — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the… — George Eliot
We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. — Plautus
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. — Unknown Author
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some… — John Dryden
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to… — George Washington
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our… — Unknown Author
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far-… — Joseph Joubert
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life,… — Ingmar Bergman
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more… — Gustave Courbet
Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to… — Guru Nanak
We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing,… — Carroll Quigley

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