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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
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Money
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class, former, latter, none, related, related to, too little, too much
«Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
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animal, Animal World, arriving, belongs, contradiction, essentially, faculty, former, grasping, instrument, latter, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, successfully, The Animal, the help
«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
«Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.»
«Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons»
«Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Reason
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commands, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, former, imperiously, latter, punished
«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)
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behold, carries, commands, dreadful, former, hardly, impression, inhuman, in history, latter, likes, mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, obeys, reflection
«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.»
«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)
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American state, citizenship, distinction, former, inferior, in the United States, latter, local, national, title, varies