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• Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Presumption, Bounds

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• Once you tie anger and ego together then you're a monster, at least a latent one. So you have to be able to separate those things before you are going to be able to do anything useful with your anger.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Ties, Ego, Together

  Source: progressive.org

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• Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

  John Adams

  Passion, Differences, People

  John Adams, Daniel LEONARD, Jonathan SEWALL (1819). “Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc”, p.11

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Mass Destruction, Views

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• [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Art, Pain

  Joseph Conrad (2007). “The Portable Conrad”, p.48, Penguin

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• Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

  Alain de Botton

  Layers, Interest, Objects

  Alain De Botton (2008). “The Art of Travel”, p.225, Vintage

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• For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Law, Long, Association

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,

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• Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.

  William Melmoth

  Views, Play, Light

  William Melmoth (1805). “Fitzosborne's Letters on several subjects ... Eleventh edition, with the Dialogue on Oratory [translated from Tacitus]: to which is prefixed a life of the author”, p.191

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• It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Character, Self, Heaven

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124

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• There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.

  John Muir

  Dog, Perfect, Profound

  John Muir (1990). “Stickeen”, p.15, Heyday

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• White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Frustration, White, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

  Alfred Brendel

  Character, Giving, Atmosphere

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• I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

  Alice James

  Dream, Giving Up, Reality

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.

  Francois Rabelais

  Mind, Virtue, Caskets

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.

  William Whewell

  Failure, Errors, Trials

  William Whewell (1852). “Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England”, p.101, London : J.W. Parker ; Cambridge : J. Deighton

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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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