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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in… — Ansel Adams
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a… — Annie Besant
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth… — Henri Frederic Amiel
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does… — Richard M. Nixon
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with… — Marshall McLuhan
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best… — George Santayana
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. — James Cash Penney
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden… — Steven Weinberg
Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins. Otherwise man lives… — Rajneesh
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according… — James Madison
My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it. — Amanda Bearse
Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent… — Sun Tzu
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
I have faith that if we caught hold of God's living candle on that truth and went out into the world-I don't care [what vocation]… — Truman G. Madsen
Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more… — Henry James
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related… — Northrop Frye
There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality. — Norman Mailer
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue.… — Billy Corgan
Itâ€™s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isnâ€™t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist. — Ann Coulter
Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe,… — Mahasi Sayadaw

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