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• When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Don't Give Up, Courtesy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Japan, Suffering

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• The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

  Norman Cousins

  Kindness, Work, Mean

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Wish, Poverty

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• The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Betrayal, Issues, Games

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• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Numbers, Important, Problem

  "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae". Textbook by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Article 329, 1801.

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• I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Book, Novel

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ideas, Former

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• The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Evil, Principles, Reason

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral Reasoning: From the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Perpetual Peace & Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.51, e-artnow

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• When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Character, Writing, Alive

  Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in search of an Author, 1921) in Three Plays (1964) p. 64

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• Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

  Samuel Richardson

  Humility, Shining, Grace

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Differences, Giving

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.5

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• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Men, Hands

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• The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Time, Age

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• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Agreement, Civilization

  "In these great times" by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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• Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Women, Believe

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Mar 09, 2015

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• 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

  People, Groups, Oppression

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

  James J. Gibson

  Believe, Mean, Separation

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• There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

  Minna Antrim

  Compliment, Ifs

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• It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more

  Ville Valo

  Art, Thinking, Make You Think

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• Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

  William Shenstone

  Beauty, Opposites, Simplicity

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.150

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• It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

  Tony Curtis

  Moving, Character, Play

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• The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Inspirational, Majority, Records

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• But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

  Stanley Milgram

  Survival, Culture, Action

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• Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Punishment, Heaven

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