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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

Adam Gopnik

America, People, Gulags

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You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!

Twiggy

Fall, Two, Half

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I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.

Lucy Liu

Queens, Taught, Freak

"Minority model" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2003.

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I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

David Oyelowo

Thinking, People, Black

"'In my head, this is massive'". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

Howard Snell

Player, Musical, Sound

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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...

James Dwight Dana

Beautiful, Nature, Memories

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I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle?

Sri Chinmoy

Feet, Imagination, Long

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Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

Ezra Taft Benson

Friendship, Good Company, Certain

Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Rabindranath Tagore

Lakes, Mountain, Depth

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.439, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

Benjamin Franklin

Opportunity, Investigation, Foolishness

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I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.

Stephen Young

Cancer, Moving, Dark

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Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Kazin

Running, New York, Ocean

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Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that Goran Radosavljevic, the commander of the facility where the Bytyqi's were murdered, remains a close advisor to the current government.... I call upon the Serbian government to also aspire to new heights in its own processing of war crimes from the 1990's and to finally ensure justice in the Bytyqi case.

Lee Zeldin

War, Government, Justice

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Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

Anatoli Boukreev

Sports, Struggle, Rocks

Anatoli Boukreev (2015). “Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer”, p.4, St. Martin's Griffin

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The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.

Farkas Bolyai

Stars, Science, Views

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Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mean, Eye, Meditation

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From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with this outlook. All disenchantment is to me a malady, which, it is true, certain circumstances may render inevitable, but which none the less, when it occurs, is to be cured as soon as possible, not to be regarded as a higher form of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Simple, Soul, May

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I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.

Lindy Booth

Inspirational, Beautiful, Eye

"The Super Lindy Booth". Interview with John Taylor, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2013.

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We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.

Bernard of Chartres

Science, Sight, Progress

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In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

Augustus William Hare

Inspirational, Valleys, Mist

Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.185

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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

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The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

Robert Mayer

Fall, Science, Water

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Expand your inner circle to include those who can challenge your thinking and escalate you to unreached heights of success.

Simon T. Bailey

Thinking, Circles, Challenges

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Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

Emily Greene Balch

Real, Sunshine, Night

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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Distance, Sight, Agreement

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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