#formerly

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government. ↗

— Garet Garrett

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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#comparison #conception #else #formerly #glory

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. ↗

— Brad Holland

#art #everyday #everyday life #formerly #life

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #average american #formerly #got #much

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. ↗

— Ovid

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#filling #formerly #innovations #involved #maintaining

So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#countries #formerly #full #members #nato

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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