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• The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a tried metrical suasion-contrivance or a specially invented pattern of physical insistences, equally, if not more, binding in its effect on the reader. From a straight linguistic point of view, there is room for wonder if there is not latent vice in this environment in which pleasurable physically-compelled responses, produced by incidents of poetic utterance, are identified with the Good.

  Laura Riding

  Views, Vices, Attention

  "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.

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• Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Toil, Able, Spirit

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.182

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• Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All subsequent movements were latent in them or brought about by them.. ..the two movements cannot be regarded as in opposition to each other, even though they started from opposite points; I maintain [an idea approved by Appolinaire and later by Matisse that they are two extremes of the same sign, tending to coincide at certain points which only the poetic instinct of the painter can discover: 'poetry' being the content and 'raison d'tre' of art.

  Gino Severini

  Art, Opposites, Ideas

  "Letters of the great artists" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (pp. 248-249), 1963.

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• If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Men, Sides, Splendor

  William Batchelder Greene (1872). “The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism”, p.4

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• Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.

  Giordano Bruno

  Wise, Men, Glowing

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno (1584), as translated by Arthur Imerti, 1964.

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• When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a road had opened up within their souls that led to all their latent powers, revealing the better part of themselves. They exhibited a great affability to everyone, put themselves out to help others and seemed full of good will.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Helping Others, Soul

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Success, Men, Quality

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.159

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• Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

  Giordano Bruno

  Essence, Divinity, Lasts

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• In dreams, through longings, we can see—
  All latent in the dust of gold
  These forests that perhaps could be—
  But that will never, ever, grow.

  Lucian Blaga

  Dream, Dust, Gold

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• States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

  John Mearsheimer

  Military, Two, Kind

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, however imperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence.
  We live in order to finish an, as yet, unfinished universe, unfinished so far as the human, that is, the highest part of it, is concerned. We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent.

  Felix Adler

  Inspiration, Believe, Men

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Writing, Drawing, Assuming

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

  John Bayley

  War, Reading, Vermeer

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• It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill and that there was a way to exploit it. And it was a key to playing great role Frankie Valli in such a huge show.

  John Lloyd Young

  Keys, Skills, Roles

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• Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, People, Racist

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• Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

  Frank Gohlke

  Photography, Reality, Unlocking

  Frank Gohlke (2009). “Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews”, p.72, Hol Art Books

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• I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple years I could read more than three pages without my brain wandering off into the ether. I drew a direct causal line between all this sort of ratta-tat-tat staccato stimulation that we get from the Internet and my growing inability to sit down and read anything that was longer than 500 words. But for me it came back because those synapses were already latent in my brain.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Couple, Book, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Worry, Hatred, Guy

  Source: screenrant.com

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• The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice for the animal kingdom come out into the open, when the time is ripe.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Animal, Justice, Intellectual

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• The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.

  Manmohan Singh

  Mean, Creativity, Ignorance

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• Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little influenced by social systems, have always responded instinctively to latent assumptions about the shape of the universe. The incomprehensibility of our new cosmos seems to me, ultimately, to be the reason for the chaos of modern art.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Shapes, Littles

  "Civilisation" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. 13), 1969.

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• At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

  Robert Stone

  Religious, Reality, Differences

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• Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

  Henry James

  Dog, Art, Confusion

  The Spoils of Poynton preface (1909)

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