#rather

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends. ↗

— James Payn

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Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

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Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. ↗

— Michael Schudson

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We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay. ↗

— George Weinberg

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One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still. ↗

— La Monte Young

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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