#rather

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#different #discarded #elements #employ #form

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better! ↗

— Graham Nelson

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Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. ↗

— Cornelius Nepos

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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken. ↗

— Ashley Olsen

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I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty. ↗

— Carre Otis

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I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained. ↗

— Carre Otis

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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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