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• If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, College, Kentucky

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• I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.

  Eboo Patel

  Dream, Baby, Couple

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde and then Fox.

  Gretchen Carlson

  America, Missing, Blonde

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Differences, Meditation

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Rights, Sake, Latter

  Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

  Cleveland Amory

  October, Rebecca, Duchess

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• The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

  Charles Darwin

  Europe, Civilization, People

  Charles Darwin (2004). “Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.120, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.

  Alice S Rossi

  Sex, Men, Equal Pay

  Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.391, UPNE

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• The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

  Paulo Freire

  Feels, Contrary, Oppressed

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

  William James

  Reality, Static, Latter

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• There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

  John F. Kennedy

  Laughter, Reality, Two

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• That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

  Henry Cloud

  Character, Giving, Return

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• The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.

  Walker Percy

  Dog, Waiting, Tails

  Walker Percy (2013). “The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming: In One Volume”, p.356, Open Road Media

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• The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soul, Despair, New Life

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• I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

  Hilarie Burton

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peach, negotiation, and foreign commerce.' Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to tax, spend and regulate as it pleases or have Americans said, 'To hell with the Constitution'?

  Walter E. Williams

  Father, War, Government

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• In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

  Mark Steyn

  Europe, Way, Welfare

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• The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.

  Peter Cundill

  All Time Low, Half, Lows

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• As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise.

  Nita Ambani

  Fall, Home, Glasses

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• Nobody has ever respected me and done things for me and loved me. So when Howard (former husband J. Howard Marshall II) came along, it was a blessing. He is the only person in my life who does not care about what other people say about me. He truly loves me and I love him for it.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Husband, I Love Him, Blessing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

  David Hume

  Discovery, Despair, Age

  David Hume (1999). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59, Open Court

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• Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

  Wil Wheaton

  Stars, Children, Rehab

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• I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Teacher, Character, Boys

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been on a 46-year diet of olives and alcohol. The latter I consume. The former I save and use over again in more alcohol. In my lifetime, I imagine, I have consumed at least $200,000 worth of whisky.

  W. C. Fields

  Years, Alcohol, Use

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• One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Husband, Blood, House

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