Higher Quotes - Page 29

• There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

  Queen Latifah

  Life, Sweet, Broken

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

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• We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Land, People

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.213, UNM Press

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• If you want to know what the biggest thing in your way to an improved standard of living, higher pay, a more rewarding career is: Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and their economic policies. They are the roadblock.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Careers, Want

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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Independent, Labor Day

  Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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• My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

  Kenny Loggins

  Love, Moving Forward, Meaning Of Life

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

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• I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Missing, Links

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• The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

  Russell Lynes

  Truth, Class, People

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Team

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• I don't get jealous of other girls, because I was raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect woman for Hugh M. Hefner, so, other than the fact that my I.Q.'s probably a little higher than he would like, I have nothing to worry about.

  Holly Madison

  Girl, Jealous, Perfect

  "The Girls Next Door". Comedy, Reality-TV, Romance, www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

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• When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

  Gustav Mahler

  Reluctance, Summit

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• The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

  Norman Mailer

  Eugenics, Suffering, Levels

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• Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility, Dollars, Action

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. Junt 7, 2011.

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• It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Two, America

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• Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Retirement, Moving, Support

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2011.

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• After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.

  Method Man

  Tunnels, Wind

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• The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Marijuana, Generations

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• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Horizon, Phases

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

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• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivation, Reality, Self

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• I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Land, Boxing, Boxers

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

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• I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

  James McGreevey

  Change, Christian, Passion

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• The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

  Peter McWilliams

  Media, Paper, Faults

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• I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

  Moby

  Eight, Play, Scrabble

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• The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

  Michel de Montaigne

  World

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

  Alanis Morissette

  Movie, People, Actors

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

  Desmond Morris

  Successful, Fundamentals, Unusual

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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