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«Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-»
Author: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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Heroism
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«Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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latent, manifests, Order of, related, related to, scientific discovery, structure, The Order
«To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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beneath, effectively, latent, photograph, record, surfaces, truthfully
«Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Passion
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awaited, awaits, Flint, flints, give forth, iron, latent, possibility, shock, spark
«Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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Opportunity
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all-around, latent, lying in wait, observant
«Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.»
«More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.»
«Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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artistic, automation, autonomy, educational, electric, electric fire, electric light, employment, grouped, latent, patterns, supplied, supplied with, warmth
«It is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion, and to observe how they sometimes sudde»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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delightful, entertainment, expansion, gradual, latent, pregnant, seminal, trace
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