As if being a
As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French. Gail Carriger
Former
My parents are from
My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player. Gabe Polsky
Many Southern Plantation owners
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck … Read more
If China’s expansion into
If China’s expansion into Africa and Russia’s into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley’s ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business. Evgeny Morozov
There are two kinds
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world… For them, the ordinary doesn’t exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment. Ernst Haas
If we have a
If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former. Ernest Sosa
The tactical difference between
The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles. Ernest Crawley
The sadistic person is
The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in … Read more
Reason is man’s faculty
Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man’s instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to … Read more
But in the former,
But in the former, those movie sets that you’ve been on like that, even if they’re huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that’s the way that we’re going. Eric Fellner