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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
Alfred A. Montapert
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The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas père
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When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
David Brin
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Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband`s he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b
Bertrand Russell
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I`m not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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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 ...
Anna Nicole Smith
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It never really felt like I had a lot of substance in my life. I had broken up with my former husband [Ron Samuels] and I kind of looked around. I didn`t have a lot of friends. I had become isolated by fame. I longed for a family and some substantive rela...
Lynda Carter
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I`m only too proud to say that I`ve never had ANY discipline problems with Laura [Laura Dern, his daughter]. In fact, I never needed to lay a hand on her, because Diane [Diane Ladd, his former wife and Laura`s mother] was so much better at keeping her in ...
Bruce Dern
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[on what he would like to ask former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean] The media tries to portray you as an angry candidate. Doesn`t that piss you off?
Stephen Colbert
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(Of her former partner, Heath Ledger) His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time, and we know that he is with us still.
Michelle Williams
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Being a child star is great. It`s being a former child star that sucks.
Danny Bonaduce
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[On former James Bond George Lazenby] George is just an angry, old, pissed-off guy. He was never an actor, but some pissed-off Aussie who doesn`t know how to show his feminine side. I met him, and he`s got that kind of brittle edge to him.
Pierce Brosnan
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I come in at night and expect to see some transparent slut at the top of the stairs. [On her 19th century Halifax home, a former brothel]
Ellen Page
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Champagne for everyone! Dining at a restaurant, upon hearing of former costar William Frawley`s death in 1966.
Vivian Vance
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Any GOP candidate can be dissected to a point that he is railed for having liberal tendencies. Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has waffled enough around his pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-gun control views to recruit many Democratic supporters. Form...
Chuck Norris
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Any GOP candidate can be dissected to a point that he is railed for having liberal tendencies. Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has waffled enough around his pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-gun control views to recruit many Democratic supporters. Form...
Chuck Norris
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Judith and Tony are still like parents to me, says Pintauro, of his former co-star`s.
Danny Pintauro
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(On his former love, Jennifer Aniston) "She likes top-notch hotels and luxury, and I like bed and breakfasts and riding my bike. That`s the most shallow version of it, but it`s indicative of our personalities".
Tate Donovan
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[on former US President Bill Clinton] It seems to me that the country rather misses him. He has impressed me. He asked me if I wanted to accompany him on a trip to Brazil, and so off I went. I`d met the President before in Washington, a very nice guy. So ...
Anthony Hopkins
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People say, `How can you be married eight times?` But I played the hand dealt me the way I was supposed to. I was friendly with most of my ex-wives. My God, there`s a Mickey Rooney`s Former Wives Marching Band!
Mickey Rooney
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I picked a reverence for medicine because I rather hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don`t admire crystals and chewing willow bark and herbal remedies.
Hugh Laurie
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They`d say, `Explain this again: If you finish this degree, you`ll be able to teach high-school drama?` -- Former "NYPD Blue" on his parents` reaction after he told them he wanted to be an actor - USA Weekend (August 1999)
Jimmy Smits
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[talking about his former band members in Pink Floyd in 2002, and why he had left Pink Floyd in 1985] "I knew that we were over with, as far as the traditional `band of brothers` notion of a rock group goes. I mean, we just weren`t like that any more and ...
Roger Waters
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On seeing a former lover for the first time in years: "I thought I told you to wait in the car."
Tallulah Bankhead
