#latter

Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#flattery #knavery #relations

I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't. ↗

— Poppy Montgomery

#best #best work #better #fans #flattered

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me. ↗

— Rick Moranis

#find #flattering #i #i always #me

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#another #because #characteristic #commits #group

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #deeply #insulting #ones #painful

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. ↗

— Plutarch

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The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#christian #college #difference #honest #latter

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#flatters #fool #himself #man #wise

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

#correct #establishment #explanation #former #hypothesis