The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Michel De Certeau

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
Max Bill

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

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
Christopher Lasch

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

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Ovid