#latent

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. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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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. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#before #flint #force #forth #give

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#appetite #better #blood #brutish #depths

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#developed #everyone #experience #far #his

Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality. ↗

— Toba Beta

#force-majeure #latent #life #reality #secret