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• My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

  Margaret Cho

  Revenge, Children, Bully

  "It Gets Better: How I Overcame Childhood Bullying" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Change, Men, America

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Crafts, Students, Illusion

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• I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

  Richard M. Daley

  Fighting, Collars, County

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• There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Israel, Cleansing

  "The Racism Barrier" by M.Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. October 3, 2003.

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• The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Wish, Poverty

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• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  Umberto Eco

  Community, Looks, Resentment

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• The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.

  Bear Grylls

  Challenges, Want, Made

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• The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Country, Differences, Political

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• Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

  Martin Heidegger

  Latter, Determine, Temporal Things

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

  Robert Herrick

  Time, Succeed, Doe

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.91

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• All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

  Alexander Herzen

  Organization, Political, Atheism

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• We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Reality, Axes, People

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• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ideas, Mind

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• A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ideas, Latter

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• I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.

  David Icke

  Eye, Two, Black

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

  Sue Kelly

  Play, Challenges, Trying

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• As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

  Sue Kelly

  Mother, Teacher, Quality

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• As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sports, Football, Suicide

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• I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Fans, Red, Red Sox Fans

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• America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

  Jaron Lanier

  Adventure, Self, America

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• Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

  Jay Leno

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

  Samuel Lover

  Heart, Years, Long

  Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.363

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• All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

  James Madison

  Debt, Made, Latter

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.504

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• I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

  George Michael

  Excited, Not Interested

  "George Michael to go on tour ccompanied by a symphony orchestra". www.mirror.co.uk. May 11, 2011.

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