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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.

Horace Mann

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

There are two kinds of pilots; those who fly to get where they're going and those who fly for the fun of flying. These guys are definitely the latter.

David Hahs

I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter August when the hayCame creaking to the barn.

Robert Lowell

This team faced a lot of adversity. Our kids really stepped up [the latter half].

Joe Wootten

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The landscaping will be one of the final things that will go in. You won't see any planting or anything of that nature until the latter part of the project.

Rolando Garcia

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse De Lamartine

I think that is guilty of some latter-day colonialism in the way they approach such governments.

Charles Clarke

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H. L. Mencken

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

Kerry Packer

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Karl Kraus

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

Daniel Defoe

We came out a bit flat, but picked it up in the latter part of the first half and into the second.

Matt Taylor

It turns out that the latter is the case. The chemical composition appears to be very ordinary.

George Becker

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Duke Ellington

We were in a really unusual financing environment for a lot of 1999 and 2000. What you're seeing in latter half of 2000 is a much more typical environment.

Warren Huff

Don't confuse "hypothesis" and "theory." The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Martin H. Fischer

One man with 100 loyal friends is a lot stronger than one man with 1000 dead enemies, but only the former knows it, and only the latter cares.

Gregory Wallace Campbell

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

Bill Watterson

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

David Brinkley

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

The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

The young feel sorrows much more sharply that the old; the latter are nearer the safety net.

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

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.

Neal Stephenson

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

The latter implies emergency preparedness planning, legal and administrative frameworks, awareness campaigns and education, and the development of the operational capabilities to act in an emergency.

Patricio Bernal

Every Latter-day Saint is a feminist by virtue of being a member.

Valerie Hudson

We've identified a suspect, and we're expecting charges either the latter part of this week or the first part of next week.

Rick Plunkett

It was the latter that set off alarm bells in the accounting department, which might have been willing to let the plane pass, but not one with floats.

Bob Poole

Arthur, be a good Latter-day Saint, do your job, and everything will be fine.

David Johansen

The question is: Is Dell dropping the ball or are analysts' expectations rising? I think it's more of the latter. It's almost expected that Dell will do the unexpected.

Kurt King

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

It's really critical that we maintain this cash hoard to keep our forward momentum going into the latter half of this decade and beyond.

Stephen Howard

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

Jimmy Page

In the latter part of 2003-2004, steel prices just shot up dramatically, in part, due to increased global demand.

Robert Murray