Latecomers Quotes

• At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.

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  Nelson Mandela

  Taken   Offering   People  

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• I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

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  Robert Wyatt

  Latecomers   Left  

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter

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  Diane Setterfield

  Children   Winter   Events  

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.

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  Ian Mckellen

  Ambition   Tvs   Latecomers  

  Source: collider.com

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• What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.

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  Francis Fukuyama

  Country   Block   Europe  

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

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  David Frum

  Government   Years   Issues  

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• Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

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  Junot Diaz

  Morning   Pieces   Paper  

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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