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767 Latter quotes by 537 unique authors

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-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
Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined… — Alice Miller
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts… — C. D. Broad
I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends… — James W. Fowler
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… — Cyril Connolly
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the… — M. King Hubbert
Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to… — Geneen Roth
Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have… — Joao Magueijo
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter? — Arthur Nersesian
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning… — Ha-Joon Chang

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