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• When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Evil, Lines

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• I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

  Philip Wylie

  Mean, People, Kind

  PHILIP WYLIE (1943). “CORPSES AT INDIAN STONES”

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• I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, Leader, Heard

  "Charles Kennedy: You Ask The Questions". Independent interview, www.independent.co.uk. November 16, 2009.

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• Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Men, Done, Wages

  Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.63, Broadview Press

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• This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.

  Park Geun-hye

  Years, Yugoslavia, Iraq

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• Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. It seems likely that this habitable world was in former days uninhabitable and, indeed, submerged beneath the ocean. Then, becoming exposed little by little, it petrified in the course of ages.

  Avicenna

  Ocean, Age, Mountain

  Avicenna, Desmond Christopher Mandeville, Aristotle (1927). “De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, being sections of the Kitāb al-shifâ: The Latin and Arabic texts, edited with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes”

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• Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.

  Isocrates

  Friendship, Men, Giving

  "Complete Works of Isocrates".

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• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  Zebulon Pike

  Father, Over You, Authority

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1966). “Journals, with Letters and Related Documents”

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• Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.

  Paul Klee

  Life, Spiritual, Time

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee notebooks”

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• Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Justice, Deeds

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VII, 34,

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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Future, Men

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

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• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

  John Dryden

  Life, Running, Lying

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Intelligence, Population

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• Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want to sound like a Quaker, but when you think about it, is a week a long time to wait? To see if a former mental patient is qualified to own an Uzi? Con one, will ya Congress? It takes three weeks to get a phone!

  Jimmy Tingle

  Gun, Thinking, Phones

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• And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely from that love of simplicity which has been the source of much false reasoning in philosophy.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Simplicity, Words Of Wisdom

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.402

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• The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.

  David Hume

  Men, Differences, Words Of Wisdom

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• Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Reflection, Circles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

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• I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

  Sepp Blatter

  Sports, Football, Thinking

  "Sepp Blatter admits Qatar World Cup error and backs winter switch" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

  Warren Moon

  Sports, Football, Successful

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• Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin

  B. H. Roberts

  Book, Two, Views

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• The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.

  Lloyd Geering

  Mother, Father, Earth

  Lloyd Geering (2015). “The World to Come: From Christian Past to Global Future”, p.130, Bridget Williams Books

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• I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought "legal" child killing to America. I was persuaded by feminist attorneys to lie; to say that I was raped, and needed an abortion. It was all a lie.

  Norma McCorvey

  Children, Lying, America

  "The Legacy of Jane Roe and the Landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Case That Changed America" by Glenn Beck, www.glennbeck.com. February 20, 2017.

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• The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

  Sarada Devi

  Men, Play, Differences

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."

  Edwin Morris

  Feelings, President, Finals

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