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perhaps I am a Lacanian because I formerly did Chinese – Jacques Lacan	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober brightens up this world like the moon when freed from clouds. – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Riches disclose in a man?s character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty. – Arabic Proverb	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. – Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind. – Endre Balogh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – H Hahn Blavatsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. – Mary Wilson Little	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. – Thomas Szasz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Laughter is nothing else but a 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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. – Doug Larson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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