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• I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Enemy, Mountain, Ruins

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Running, Prayer, Light

  Song: Anthem

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• People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Fall, People, Weakness

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• The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

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• The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Selfish, Liars, Lying

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• Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Giving, Lesson Learned, Mind

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• Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Powerful, Positive Thinking, Earth

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 28, 2012

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• From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Sex, Military, War

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Government, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.317, Hoover Press

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• Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

  Langston Hughes

  Jesus, Texas, Self

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.10, Hill and Wang

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• We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

  Adrienne Rich

  Lying, Men, Political

  Adrienne Cécile Rich (1977). “Women and honor: some notes on lying”

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• Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

  Mark McGrath

  Sky, Pedestal, Want

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• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Goats, May, Likes

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• Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Men, Obscurity

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• I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

  Laurel Lea

  Children, Arrows, Giving

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• Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

  Cass Gilbert

  Humble, Soul, Genius

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• The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

  E. Digby Baltzell

  Men, Civilization, Complacency

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• A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Philosophical, Views, Critical Analysis

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• How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Skills

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• I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.

  Kristanna Loken

  Jobs, Creative, Cinema

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• No matter how I say it, Donghae hyung holds a very high place in my heart.

  Cho Kyuhyun

  Heart, Matter, My Heart

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• Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding

  Thomas Willis

  Fall, Animal, Understanding

  Thomas Willis (1685). “The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick”, p.490

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