Higher Quotes - Page 27

• The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Powerful, Doctors, Ignorant

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Engineering, Years

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• Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

  Martin Feldstein

  Running, Government, Growth

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• Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

  Enrico Fermi

  Confused, Lectures, Levels

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• Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

  Renee Fleming

  Voice, Technique, Norm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.

  Claire Forlani

  Wedding, Commitment, Form

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• I definitely believe in a higher power.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Higher Power

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• There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

  Thomas Frank

  Integrity, Jail, Source

  "Obama Is Right About Fox News" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

  Thomas Frank

  Today, Students, Desperate

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press

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• Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Life Changing, Aging

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• Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

  Northrop Frye

  Country, Moral, Making Money

  "The Northrop Frye Quote Book".

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• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Waiting, Attention, Pay

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.

  Bronagh Gallagher

  Memories, Sunday, Epic

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• I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

  Leif Garrett

  Believe, Sleep, Bed

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• I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

  Gordon Gee

  Dream, Believe, Doors

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Change, Two, Design

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• Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Good Life, Insperational

  "Goethe's Art of Living".

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• The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

  Emma Goldman

  Strong, Sex, Character

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.147, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, School, Lines

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• I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

  Alan Greenspan

  Talking, Today, Economy

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

  Zane Grey

  Men, Self, May

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• When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

  William Hague

  People, Earning, Share

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• Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

  Alexander Haig

  Practice, Levels, Affirmation

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• I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

  Kirk Hammett

  Thinking, People, Band

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• Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

  Nhat Hanh

  Doubt, Helpful, Kind

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