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As a former prosecutor, I will always be on the side of the law and not any particular constituency.

~Alexander Acosta

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All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

~Alexander Herzen

Topics: All Religions Always Any Based Been Corruption Former Latter Makes Morality More Obedience Organization Political Religions Say Slavery Than Use Violence Voluntary Why Will

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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

~Alexander Pope

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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

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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

Topics: Few Former History Latter Majority Objectives Oblivion Obstacles Records Reward See Successes While

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I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.

~Alisher Usmanov

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Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Among Army Blink Confirmed Crisis Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis Former Generals Humiliation Knowledge Many Men Military Missile Moscow Most Officers Over Past Role Senior Sense Soviet Them Thoroughly Times Years Kgb

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For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

~Allen West

Topics: Allowed Black Conservative Far Former Here Inhumane Long Other Paint Record Republican Set Sexist Side Straight Today Too Us War Well

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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

~Alphonse De Lamartine

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As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.

~Amy Klobuchar

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