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Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are almost unrivaled.
John Hickenlooper
Natural
Political
Half
Latter
Significant
Almost
Instincts
Most
Wellington
His
Mayors
Century
The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
Karen Joy Fowler
Hope
Great
Book
Writing
Mind
Latter
Forget
Often
Process
Eventually
Publishing
Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.
Ken Cuccinelli
Culture
Dangerous
Safety
Criminality
Criminals
Release
Latter
Risk
More
Non-Violent
Making
Effect
Offenders
Than
Same
Common
Former
Public
Them
Public Safety
Population
Originally
Among
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
Kenneth Lonergan
You
Building
Realistic
State
Latter
Seeing
Empire
Empire State
New
Although
Without
Shoot
York
New York
Much
Less
Starbucks
Film
I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.
Kyle Chandler
You
Better
Rare
King
Think
Latter
King Kong
More
Had
Like
Read
Sort
Because
Kong
Audition
Go
Script
Then
Successful
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
Lafcadio Hearn
Latter
Gut
General
Only
Poetry
Students
Part
True
Idea
Between
Longer
Perhaps
Cultivate
Western
Short
Difference
Former
Forms
Japanese
Among
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.
Lev Grossman
Book
World
Smart
Diversity
Enough
Guess
Our
Latter
Out
Kind
Run
Through
Had
Healthier
Amazon
Current
Substantially
Different
Literary
Which
Figure
Many
Platforms
Publishers
There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: 'Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!'
Lionel Shriver
Success
Good
News
Character
Gay
Rights
Good News
Lesbian
Every
Drama
Gay Rights
Our
Bit
Sight
Latter
Characters
Rights Movement
Point
Had
Look
Couple
Hip
Still
Sitcom
Movement
Grew
Tiresome
Which
Us
Show
Suddenly
Homosexual
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello
Words
Before
Nothing
Action
Alive
Latter
Characters
Follow
Him
Does
Author
Situations
Which
Them
Really
Suggest
There are two types of people in this world: people who can be on time and Nigerians. I am in the latter group, and I confess to my inability to arrive anywhere punctually.
Luvvie Ajayi
Time
People
World
Group
Types
Latter
Am
Arrive
Confess
Anywhere
Inability
Who
Nigerians
Two
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
Margaret Wertheim
Mathematics
Nature
Women
World
Thinking
Latter
System
About
Masculine
Supposedly
Material
Material World
Doing
Were
Task
Gods
Rooted
Realm
Inherently
Associated
Numbers
Given the choice between instant gratification and the lasting satisfaction of earning the esteem of someone you respect and admire, all but the most small-minded would choose the latter.
Mark Goulston
You
Respect
Lasting
Earning
Latter
Would
Admire
Someone
Given
Instant
Instant Gratification
Between
Most
Esteem
Choice
Choose
Gratification
Satisfaction
There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
Mark Zuckerberg
Myself
Good
People
Organization
Big
Strategy
Analytic
Types
Good Managers
Those
Latter
Focused
Would
More
Tend
Put
Camp
Very
Person
Manage
Same
Managers
Then
Much
Really
Who
Two
Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.
Marshall Goldsmith
Best
You
Challenges
Yourself
Goals
Mind
Action
Active
State
Latter
Determine
Clear
Between
Do Your Best
Employee
Alternative
Course
Passive
Huge
Questions
Huge Difference
Trying
Did
Difference
Former
Your
Describe
Defend
Set
Nothing - and, I repeat, nothing - can affect what you build with sheer hard work. You either wait for people to define your worth or you define it with your own actions. I believe in the latter.
Mawra Hocane
Work
Hard Work
You
People
Worth
Wait
Build
Own
Nothing
Believe
Define
Latter
Sheer
Affect
Repeat
Either
Your
Hard
Actions
There are two Tory parties: the trendy, socially liberal Notting Hill set which dominates at the national level, and the unreconstructed, reactionary, and often bigoted members of Conservative associations at the local level. The latter have yet to reconcile themselves to the reality of modern, multiracial Britain.
Mehdi Hasan
Reality
Conservative
National
Liberal
Local
Local Level
Trendy
Latter
Members
Reconcile
Tory
Hill
Parties
Reactionary
Modern
Often
Which
Bigoted
Themselves
Level
Socially
Britain
Two
Set
Associations
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
Michel De Certeau
Work
Man
Others
Latter
Immoral
Object
Lazy
Longer
Along
Makes
Does
Subject
Itself
Dying
Former
Available
Worked
Even
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Minna Antrim
Truth
Woman
Latter
Compliment
Oblique
Never
Were
Did
Prefer
Straight
Who
Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.
Moses Mendelssohn
God
Nature
Man
Church
Convictions
State
Relations
Latter
Object
Insofar
Both
Between
Well
Former
Actions
Based
One grave and fundamental Keynesian error is to persist in regarding the interest rate as a contract rate on loans instead of the price spreads between stages of production. The former, as we have seen, is only the reflection of the latter.
Murray Rothbard
Reflection
Seen
Latter
Rate
Only
Price
Instead
Between
Spreads
Contract
Error
Persist
Stages
Regarding
Former
Interest
Production
Fundamental
Grave
Loans
If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
Pat Robertson
You
Bible
Age
Church
Before
Birth
Back
Earth
Latter
Would
Would-Be
He
New
Days
Read
Said
Caught
New Order
End
Up
Order
Paul
Apostle
Letter
I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way.
Phyllis Smith
Me
Win
Better
Parents
Living
Worried
Once
Way
Latter
Financially
Thousands
Able
Something
Struggling
Better Way
How
Prayed
Years
Lottery
Did
Going
Just
Different
Miles
Help
Away
Assist
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
Pierre Nicole
Hide
Others
Our
Latter
Ourselves
Seek
Attempt
Failings
Most
Them
Successful
There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
Rachel Nichols
Me
You
People
Live
Those
Latter
Eat
Eating
Adventure
Know
Am
Many
The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
Raymond E. Feist
Latter
Betrayal
Outside
Put
Felt
Issue
Were
Integrate
Continuity
Comment
Central
Them
Choices
Ignore
Games
Chose
Need
For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'
Richard Flanagan
Good
Country
Latter
Seemed
Something
Part
Generous
Opening
Fair
Go
Up
Australia
Itself
Land
Century
Much
Large
Believed
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