#rather

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

#beautiful #beautiful things #belong #book #concrete

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. ↗

— James Laughlin

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My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. ↗

— Ben Edwards

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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no. ↗

— William Glasser

#fail #fulfill #later #life #many

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

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I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

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The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture. ↗

— John Fiske

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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. ↗

— Ken Follett

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