quotes about Latter
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When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.
-- Anita Moorjani -
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?
-- Arthur Nersesian -
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
-- Barbara Mertz -
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
-- Baron de MontesquieuSource : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.106, Library of Alexandria
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What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
-- Brigham Young -
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.
-- Charles Darwin -
I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
-- Criss JamiSource : Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.10, Penguin
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Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
-- Democritus -
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
-- Fredrik Bajer -
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
-- George Eliot -
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His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
-- Harriet Martineau -
No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves
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A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
-- Henri Poincare -
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 -
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In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.
-- Jared Diamond -
Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.
-- John Angell JamesSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 315, 1895.
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I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
-- Jose Ortega y GassetSource : Meditaciones del Quijote "Lector" (1914)
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In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
-- Lionel ShriverSource : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.168, Counterpoint Press
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Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
-- Martin Heidegger -
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
-- Minna Antrim -
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
-- Nathaniel HawthorneSource : Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Edgar Smith (2015). “The Scarlet Letter & A Scarlet Stigma: Romance and The Adapted Play (Illustrated Edition): A Romantic Tale of Sin and Redemption - The Magnum Opus of the Renowned American Author of “The House of the Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales” along with its Dramatic Adaptation and Biography”, p.164, e-artnow
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There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.†~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)
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We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
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If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.
-- Rene Thom -
Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.
-- T. D. Jakes -
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
-- Thomas Jefferson -
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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 HorwitzSource : Tony Horwitz (2010). “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War”, p.151, Vintage
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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 produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man
-- William Graham SumnerSource : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.108, Ludwig von Mises Institute
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You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.
-- Charlie Ergen -
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
-- Elliott SoberSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.
-- Ernest Sosa -
If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.
-- Gail FineSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.
-- Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraSource : "Truthmaking". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 7, 2012.
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The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
-- Helmut Schmid -
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There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.
-- Jason Diamond -
You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter
-- Robin Roberts