Formerly Quotes

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The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast. — Bertrand Russell
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to… — Christopher Lasch
The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's yearning for something… — Bray Wyatt
Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men… — Ayn Rand
I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and… — John F. Kennedy
Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a… — Charles Darwin
Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get… — Susan Sontag
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men… — Lafcadio Hearn
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government. — Garet Garrett
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. — Robert Breault
Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now… — Harold Speed
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague… — Charlton Laird
That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by… — Tycho Brahe
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit,… — Jean de la Bruyere
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to… — Christopher Lasch
My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda. — Goswami Kriyananda
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it… — William E. Gladstone
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or… — Thomas Hobbes

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