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• By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Past, Names, Priorities

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.69, Da Capo Press

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• Wisdom and fortune combating together,
  If that the former dare but what it can,
  No chance may shake it.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Together, May

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, Mr Theobald (Lewis), Sir Thomas Hanmer (1771). “The Plays of Shakespeare from the Text of Dr. S. Johnson: With the Prefaces, Notes, Etc. of Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson and Select Notes from Many Other Critics ; Also, the Introduction of the Last Editor Mr. Capell; and a Table Shewing His Various Readings ...”, p.77

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• I will never forget my time with Athletic Club and I'd like to thank the fans and staff for all their support and, above all, wish all my fantastic former team-mates all the best for the future.

  Ander Herrera

  Team, Support, Athletic

  "Luke Shaw passes medical at Manchester United for £30m move" by The Press Association, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

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• most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

  John Dewey

  Notable, Renewal, Distinction

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.4, SIU Press

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• ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

  Ulrich Walter

  Space, Emergencies, Ships

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Distance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile.

  George Harrison

  Work Out, Style, Trying

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Believe, Men, Presence Of Mind

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• My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta helped me at international events and both helped me to cope with the big occasion which gave me the confidence I needed to become a champion.

  Trina Gulliver

  Sports, Player, Two

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• Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in the capability of our military forces, and as a former military man myself - I was a professional naval officer, a submarine officer - I thought it was better, on a step-by-step, very carefully planned way, to increase the technical, or technological, capability of our weapons systems.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, War, Men

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• Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Class, Differences

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.140, Hackett Publishing

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• After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.

  Billy Graham

  Summer, School, Self Confidence

  Source: www.cmstory.org

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• With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

  George Washington

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Heart

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.115

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• No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  President, Trials, Dignity

  "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

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• Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Political, Pseudoscience

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a former organ harvester describe a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.

  Carly Fiorina

  Heart, Brain, Watches

  "Carly Fiorina Keeps Digging a Hole She Never Should Have Started" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 18, 2015.

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• "I've become a huge fan of term limits," the former aide said, "because Armey and the others in leadership used to be just like you and your crew in their approach to spending. They have changed over the years."

  Mark Sanford

  Years, Political, Fans

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• Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Party, Europe, Law

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• ...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Karma, Men, Order

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.8510, Delphi Classics

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• 'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.

  Iamblichus

  Karma, Perfect, Justice

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• I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Thinking, Connections

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

  Francis Bacon

  Strength, Believe, Men

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• I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

  John Hughes

  Brother, Hippie, Clothes

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• A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.325

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• The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

  Francis Bacon

  Order, Numbers, Support

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.56

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