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And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Civilization, Dwelling

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.29, Graphic Arts Books

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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Creativity, Greatness

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Sorrow, Three, Vines

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The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

Walter Raleigh

Men, Differences, Rich

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In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

Lord Chesterfield

Friendship, Enmity, Strange

Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.246, Wildside Press LLC

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President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to succeed they need to work hard and study hard. Then today, former President George W. Bush presented the rebuttal.

Conan O'Brien

Hard Work, Order, Yesterday

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Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.

Conan O'Brien

Men, Thinking, Presidential

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Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending.

Conan O'Brien

Two, President, Asian

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Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded.

Craig Kilborn

Blow, Cake, Granddaughter

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Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

Russell Brand

Spiritual, Pain, Self

Russell Brand (2010). “Articles of Faith”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'

Amy Poehler

Tuesday, Abuse, Trials

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I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

Jeremy Northam

Spy, Moscow, Realizing

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You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.

Marianne Williamson

Self, Cocoons, Limits

FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 08, 2009

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After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.

Terry Bradshaw

Choices, Three, Looks

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I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

Kelly Osbourne

People, Bully, Used

"Kelly Osbourne's DOs and DON'Ts of Body Confidence" By Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.

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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Macaulay Culkin

Children, Years, Gone

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Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

Mel Carnahan

Jobs, Children, Training

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Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.

Joshua Mohr

Jobs, Wrestling, Dawn

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By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

Dana Milbank

Gun, Law, Doubt

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My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.

Andrea Fay Friedman

Mother, Son, Arms

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I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.

Andrea Fay Friedman

Daughter, Sarcasm, Thinking

"'Family Guy' actress with Down Syndrome, Andrea Fay Friedman, fires back at Sarah Palin" by Nail Nagraj, www.nydailynews.com. February 19, 2010.

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There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Tony Horwitz

People, Intimacy, Latter

Tony Horwitz (2010). “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War”, p.151, Vintage

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I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative. Art is also about beauty. And if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

Nikky Finney

Art, Mean, Important

"The Beauty And Difficulty Of Poet Nikky Finney". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 8, 2012.

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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

Yitzhak Rabin

Israel, Years, Here I Am

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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

Nadine Gordimer

Humanity, Faces, Slave

Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Loot”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

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