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• The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Sheep, Mountain, Valleys

  1829 TheMisfortunes of Elphin,'TheWar-Song of DinasVawr'.

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• The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

  Harlan Ellison

  Baby, Sex, Fun

  Harlan Ellison (1975). “Partners in Wonder”

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• Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Occupation, Want

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• Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

  Eleanora Duse

  Teacher, Growth, Sorrow

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• I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.

  Robert Lowell

  Swimming, August, Air

  'Mr Edwards and the Spider' (1950)

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• There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Interesting, Copying, Increase

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• Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.

  Charles Brent

  Strong, Thinking, Hands

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• Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Infantry

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• Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.

  Max Planck

  God, Science, Views

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

  Brigham Young

  Saint, Tests, Compare

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• A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.

  David

  Keys, Views, Agreement

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• Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Healing, Europe

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Mind, Saint

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• The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

  Bayard Taylor

  Eye, Dark, Differences

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Voice, Pieces, Rehearsal

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.114

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• But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nation’s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Ideas

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books

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• The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which is profoundly mistaken. Markets and profits are crucial, but the pure free-market model itself is deeply flawed.

  Paul Ormerod

  Views, Belief, Profit

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.

  Anders Chydenius

  Opportunity, Fruit, Toil

  "The National Gain" by Anders Chydenius, (§20), 1765.

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• What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus, Corinth, and Rome, is the latter's fullness of knowledge of God's Word. To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.

  Gordon Clark

  Echoes, Rome, Age

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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

  Organization, Origin Of Species, Mischief

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• For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

  David Bentley Hart

  Rejection, Despair, Nihilism

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• When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Strong, Kings

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• The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Trying, Realizing

  Carl Gustav Jung (1938). “Psychology and Religion”

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• Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to interpret any vision till they have first enquired the time at which it befell; for, if it were early, and of the morning sleep, they then thought that they might make a good interpretation thereof... in that the soul was then fitted for divination, and disincumbered. But if in the first sleep, or near midnight, while the soul was as yet clouded and drowned in libations, they, being wise, refused to give any interpretation.

  Anna Kingsford

  Wise, Morning, Kings

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• A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Gratitude, Research, Might

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