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«Money is related to class only in the minds of people who have too much of the former, too little of the latter or none of either»
Author: Doug Robarchek
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
class, former, latter, none, related, related to, too little, too much
«I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
History,
Nations,
War
| Keywords:
commander, commanders, distinguished, former, Great War, in history, in parallel, parallel, paralleled, recall, recently
«Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.»
Author: Horace Mann
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complement, complemented, complements, former, jails, latter, prisons, schools
«Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Funny,
People,
Stupidity,
Universe
| Keywords:
about, are, former, human, infinite, More Than Human, not, Not sure, only, Our universe, stupidities, stupidity, sure, sure thing, The, The Other Two, the universe, things, two, twos, two way, universe, universes
«It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| Keywords:
creature, former, graft, grafted, grafting, grafts, inherent, once and for all
«Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.»
«I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
brotherhood, former, Georgia, hills, I Have a Dream, owners, slaves, slave owner, sons, Sons of, Table of
«Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
American state, citizenship, distinction, former, inferior, in the United States, latter, local, national, title, varies