Latent Quotes

• The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

  James Madison

  Men, Differences, Causes

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.49, Hackett Publishing

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• Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2404, e-artnow

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• Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

  Paul Valery

  Sorry, Men, Giving

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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 all things.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Humanity, Quality

  Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: photographs”

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• To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

  Ansel Adams

  Photographer, Surface, Landscape Photography

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

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• 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. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

  Billy Corgan

  Mother, Growing Up, Real

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• 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 living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Differences, Principles

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.340, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Mother, Gay, Lgbt

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• I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Roots, Racism

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

  Norman Mailer

  Alive, Homosexuality

  1959 Advertisements for Myself,'The Homosexual Villain'.

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• In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Science, Design, Desire

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

  Lord Acton

  Play, People, Minorities

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag

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• London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.

  Henry James

  Feet, Red Flags, Cash

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.1036, e-artnow

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• Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive.

  Gregor Mendel

  Association, Hybrid, Representing

  "Experiments on Plant Hybrids" (1865)

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• I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child. they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

  Sybil Marshall

  Children, Integrity, Hard Work

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• It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

  Lord Acton

  Freedom, Equality, Democracies Have

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.9, VM eBooks

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• More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Positive, Wisdom, Men

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• 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 its spark.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Iron

  Entry for December 17, 1856. "Journal Intime". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1882.

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• If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• 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 he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Patriotic, Men, Doe

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• What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

  Marie Corelli

  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.31, The Floating Press

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• The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!

  Jean Baudrillard

  Heart, Class, Use

  "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy". Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 15, 1987.

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• What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Book, Want

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.91, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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 to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

  Northrop Frye

  Nature, Discovery, Order

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.97, Princeton University Press

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• Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hurt

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