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965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… — James Madison
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining… — Thomas Paine
His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming. — Clive Barker
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life. — Milan Kundera
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. — Malcolm Gladwell
Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that… — Mahatma Gandhi
My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the… — Simone de Beauvoir
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther… — Joyce Carol Oates
When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books… — Thomas Watson
There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. — Tom Robbins
The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me… — Isabel Allende
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on… — Simone de Beauvoir
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly… — Paulo Freire
To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles… — Robert Herrick
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale… — Winston Churchill
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with… — Paul Bowles
Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of… — Patricia Hill Collins
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a… — Frantz Fanon
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is… — Alejandra Pizarnik
He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside… — Stephen Dobyns
I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas. --George W. Bush, on the former South African president,… — George W. Bush
This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than… — Paulo Coelho
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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