Higher Quotes - Page 26

• In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Illustration, Justice

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• So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Creativity, Impulse

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• Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

  Chris Christie

  Mean, Government, Choices

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• The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Life, Family

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1975). “De officiis”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

  Grover Cleveland

  Women, Long Ago, Civilization

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• Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

  Thad Cochran

  Art, Jobs, Math

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• We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  People, Personality, Idiot

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Tone, Moral

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• For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Opposites, Rotation, Traveler

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Cost, Loan, Interest

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• Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

  Howard Cosell

  Courage, Morning, Pain

  Howard Cosell (1974). “Like it is”

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• The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

  Ann Coulter

  New York, Gun, Political

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• When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Believe, Cutting

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• The higher the building the lower the morals.

  Noel Coward

  Literature, Morality, Architecture

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• Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Military, Demographics

  "Ted Cruz: 'When Was The Last Time You Saw A Hispanic Panhandler?'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  Ted Cruz

  Hurt, Jobs, Government

  "Ted Cruz: 'When Was The Last Time You Saw A Hispanic Panhandler?'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

  Angela Davis

  Color, People, Prison

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• Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

  Evan Davis

  Senior, Mean, Editors

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• My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Christian, Mom, Dad

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

  Christopher Dodd

  Important, Income, Pell Grants

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  Umberto Eco

  Sadness, Fate, Destiny

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• There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

  Havelock Ellis

  Money, Thinking, Poetry

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Hands, Imagine

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• If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Integrity, Niece

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.80, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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