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• When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

  Walter Russell

  Knowing, Unity, Conflict

  Walter Russell (1947). “The Secret of Light”, p.79, Рипол Классик

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• ... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

  Diane Arbus

  Lying, Book, Long

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• We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Reality, Numbers, Reason

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• There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

  Abraham Verghese

  Grief, Results, Capacity

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• Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.

  Dov Davidoff

  Reality, Anticipation

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• A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

  Aneurin Bevan

  People, Want, Socialist

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• The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Zero, Giving Up, Grief

  Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.278, Penguin

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• If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?

  Ellen Galinsky

  Children, Adults, Can Do

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• It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects.

  Martin Luther

  Pride, Office, Faithful

  Martin Luther (1961). “Lectures on Romans”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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• For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time: we eat them.... The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Numbers, Community

  Tom Regan, Peter Singer (1976). “Animal rights and human obligations”, Prentice Hall

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• The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

  John Baird

  Stories, Celebrate, Prodigies

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• There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

  James Mangold

  Perfect, Levels, Taste

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• I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

  Allen Lacy

  Mean, Gardening, Common

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• History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Men, Tasks, Ability

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• The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.

  Washington Irving

  Sweet, Luxury, Tree

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• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the outgo.

  P. T. Barnum

  Income, Economy, Unforeseen

  P. T. Barnum (2015). “The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.4, Booklassic

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• You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Vices, Virtue, Term

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• It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.

  Will Packer

  Jobs, Thinking, Expectations

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• The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Advice, Needs, Interpretation

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1965). “The interpersonal theory of psychiatry”

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• He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Shadow, Body, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.366

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• [T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates in particular the article of the Constitution of the United States which declares that Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment.... This particular church, therefore, would so far be a religious establishment by law, a legal force and sanction being given to certain articles in its constitution and administration.

  James Madison

  Religious, Law, Government

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• The supply of government exceeds demand.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Government, Demand

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• The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

  Alexander Pope

  Bible, Jobs, Book

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• The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.

  African Spir

  Real, Data, Principles

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

  Benjamin Franklin

  Heart, Enlightenment, Use

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

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