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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
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
Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than… — Erwin Schrodinger
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
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
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers. — Bertolt Brecht
Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by… — Julian Bond
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same… — Thomas S. Monson
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a… — Arthur W. Pink
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he… — Leonardo da Vinci
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in… — Niccolo Machiavelli
My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with… — Louis Pasteur
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.… — Samuel Adams
Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant.… — Susan Jeffers
About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything… — Ayn Rand
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject… — Thomas Jefferson
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study… — John B. S. Haldane

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