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There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter. — Tony Horwitz
I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they… — Nikky Finney
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one… — Unknown Author
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. — Robin Morgan
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are… — Rollo May
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of… — George Washington
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right… — Orson Scott Card
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an… — James Madison
If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-â€‹destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once… — Walter Benjamin
Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I… — Hugo Chavez
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard… — Condoleezza Rice
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the… — Alessandro Manzoni
For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has… — William Graham Sumner
Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared… — Stephen Crane
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular… — Alain Badiou
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired… — Michael Gurian
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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