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“. . . there are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight”

“If the choice is dying from COVID-19 or surviving by wearing a hazmat suit, a gas mask and goggles to the shops, I choose the latter.”

Dying Osha Shops Gas Latter Mask Covid 19 Surviving Goggles Hazmat

Author:Steven Magee

“People can push people down; People can also push people up. The former are misleaders; the latter are leaders.”

Source: Leaders' Ladder

“People can destroy people; People can also decorate. The former are misleaders; the latter are leaders.”

Source: Leaders' Ladder

“When President Trump was elected, I predicted that he would either be a fantastic success or an abysmal failure, unfortunately it was the latter.”

Success Politics President Failure Trump Fantastic Latter Elected Predicted Abysmal

Author:Steven Magee

“A Single Blank Paper Is More influential then Thousand Love Letters Of Fake Feelings.”

Latter Love Letters Fake Feelings

Author:Yaganesh Derasari

“Never bet anything on men’s stupidity and on women’s virginity; the former believe they aren’t, while the latter believe they might be.”

Men Believe Women Stupidity Former Latter Virginity

Book:LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.”

“The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.”

Littles Book Light Teaching Century Materials Source Infinite Jew Doctrine Former Latter Emanate

Author:Albert Pike

“For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.”

Should Acting Singing Very Good Singers Glad Pursue Latter Opera

Author:Christoph Waltz

“It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.”

Want Firsts Character Common Class Comfort All Things Including Satisfied Luxury Latter Urgent First Class

Book:Principles of Economics

Source: Principles of Economics

“After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.”

“If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.”

Ifs Mind Believe Would Be Age Father Jesus Sound Christ Jesus Christ Conclusion Folly Latter Falsehood Testament New Testament Fanatics Irresistible Biographers Sound Mind

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.”

Ideas Force Battle Latter

Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“I hope I have a few years left in my 'last days,' but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days.”

World Way Want Years Said Book Lasts Left Language Given Clear Judgment Bars Faithful Latter Straightforward Last Day Latter Days

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies.”

Book Jesus Christ Lord Comfort Jesus Christ Embrace Our Time Divinity Latter Lord Jesus Christ Latter Days

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.”

“Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.”

People Hands Moral Virtue Benefits Intellectual Former Latter Moral Virtues

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.”

Thinking Should Littles Can Do Our Lives Example Saint Latter Little Time Latter Days Latter Day Saints

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.”

Ifs Trying Important War Might Felt Subjects Particular Medicine University Physics Latter Engineering Glamorous Science Physics

Author:John Henry Carver

“No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.”

Saint Communism Latter Communist Socialist Latter Days Latter Day Saints

Book:Title of liberty

Source: Title of liberty

“Where two or three are met together, the prayer of one strikes fire from the soul of another; and the latter in his turn leads the way to nobler heights of devotion. And lo! as their joy increases, there is One in their midst whom they all recognize and cling to. He was there before, but it is only when their hearts begin to burn that they recognize Him; and in a true sense they may be said to bring Him there.”

Way Heart May Said Two Soul Together Joy Turns Three Prayer Fire Mets Increase Strikes Devotion Height Latter Midst

Author:James Stalker

“In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.”

Firsts States Belief Military Army Stronger Defeat Partners Campaigns Latter Collapse

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“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”

Inspirational Inspiration Records Majority Rewards Obstacles Objectives Former Latter Problem Solving Oblivion

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.”

Thinking Life Inspirational Dream Waiting Attitude Former Your Dreams Latter

Author:Hal Elrod

“Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.”

Men Made Wisdom Water Issues Movement Died Saint Islamic Latter Controlled Swimmer Volition Before Death

Author:Rumi

“Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying to make nine women pregnant at once in the hope of getting a baby in a month's time.”

Trying May Successful Baby Months Development Research Nine Former Being Successful Latter Statistics Pregnant Crash Programmes Basic Research

Author:Richard Doll

“The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.”

Men Littles Two Whole Science Lying Universe Path Wise Seeing Fool Lows Errors Former Wheels Latter Regions Lanes Footsteps Lofty Provinces Ruts Two Wheels

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.”

Ifs Soul Body Principles Ill Harm Cures Ruins Former Latter

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.”

Thinking Firsts May Originals Former Latter Exception Divides Thinker

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.”

Should Ears Tongue Former Latter Good Will Slander

Author:Plautus

“Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.”

Opinion Satisfied Former Vanity Latter Nerves Antidote Conceit

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.”

Thinking Men Differences Class Records Expression Observation Perceive Latter Worthwhile Nevertheless Facility Lower Class

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.”

Men Mind Action Faces Crime Pure Appearance Former Operations Motive Latter

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

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

Mountain Latter Valleys Sheep

Author:Thomas Love Peacock

“The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.”

Thinking Wells May Art Different Former Reaching Latter Faculty Eloquence Lofty Very Deep

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

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

Men Want Men And Women Latter Occupation Bane

Author:Horace Mann

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

Growth Teacher Sorrow Evidence Latter Unhappiness Interpretation Great Teacher

Author:Eleanora Duse

“I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.”

Art Wanted Achieve Masters Prejudice Aim Sake Former Latter Copies Idle Avoiding Copying

Author:Gustave Courbet

“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.”

Saws Air Tree Latter Swimming Spiders August Barns Hay

Author:Robert Lowell

“A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.”

Firsts Long Stills Moments Causes Parent Born Grief Fire Son Foolish Superiors Latter Long Life Blazing

Author:Chanakya

“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.”

People Freedom Economy Aspect Criticism Extremes Graves Latter Academic Laziness Inadequacy Literary Criticism Cerebral Terminal Specialization Academic Freedom

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“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.”

Process Interesting Amount Increase Latter Improving Copying

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.”

Ifs Should Faces Natural Gone Paint Painter Landscape Features Insult Latter Occupation Portraits Portraiture Presumptuous

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Should Made War Ends Middle Fronts Battle Engaged Latter Total War Infantry Cavalry

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“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.”

Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers

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

Ifs Tests Saint Compare Latter Latter Days Latter Day Saints

Author:Brigham Young

“The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”