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• Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.108, Bantam Classics

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• A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• To be a true Progressive it is not sufficient to stand up and say that one belives in what has been promulgated as progressive principles. One must be progressive in heart and active in promoting the progressive principles of today, tomorrow and always. There is no resting point, for humanity is ever ascending to a higher and better goal.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Heart, Goal, Humanity

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Serenity, Rooms

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• Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

  Michael Josephson

  Integrity, Cost, Pay

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• The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Live Life, Men, Ideas

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Roots, People, Levels

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.102, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed in solving their problems fairly and efficiently at a grassroots level, they retain control over their lives. Insofar as they delegate their problem solving to a higher authority, they lose control over their lives.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Democracy, Levels

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.120, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. This is my calling, to open doors of truth and make people think, to arouse others from their apathetic and lethargic state, and get them to seek out for themselves the inner peace which dwells within. This is the extent of my undertaking, I can do no more. The rest I leave to a higher power.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.130, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It is my mission as a pilgrim to act as a messenger expressing spiritual truths. It is a task which I accept joyfully, and I desire nothing in return, neither praise or glory, nor the glitter of silver and gold. I simply rejoice to be able to follow the whisperings of a Higher Will.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Desire, Gold

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.126, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living - including the inhabitants of the slums.

  Ayn Rand

  America, Rose, People

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• I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Character, Leaving

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.10033, Delphi Classics

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• The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

  Charles Darwin

  Intellectual, Moral, Faculty

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7574, Delphi Classics

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• We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.

  Mario Cuomo

  Believe, Order, Government

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

  Theodore Parker

  Fall, Men, Lows

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Critical Writings”, p.1

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• Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Honor, World

  William Sloane Coffin (2012). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.62, UPNE

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• The more noise, the higher I get.

  Ed Belfour

  Noise

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• The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Genius, Probability

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• The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Climbing

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• The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lonely, Thinking, Tree

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• We don't like the storms because they challenge us! But for this very reason exactly, we must like them! Whoever challenges us gives us the opportunity to rise higher!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Opportunity, Giving, Challenges

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• God grant that each of us here today may so live that all among us, and with us, may see, not us, but that which is divine and comes from God. With that vision of what those who have lost their way may become, my prayer is that they may receive strength and resolution to climb higher and higher and upward and onward to that great goal of eternal life and also that I may do my part in seeking to show by example, as well as by precept, that which will be the best of which I am capable of doing.

  Harold B. Lee

  Prayer, Goal, Vision

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• It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Historical, Mind

  "Philosophy in a New Key". Book by Susanne Langer, 1941.

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• Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the occasion for the delusion of pride to arise if we think our understanding is superior to that of everyone else. Pride is harmful because it prevents us from accepting fresh knowledge from a qualified teacher. Just as a pool of water cannot collect on the tip of a mountain, so too a reservoir of understanding cannot be established in a mind falsely elevated by pride.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Teacher, Pride, Thinking

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