Higher Quotes - Page 31

• I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

  Steven Pinker

  Fighting, Men, Numbers

  "A History of Violence" by Steven Pinker, newrepublic.com. March 19, 2007.

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• The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Organization, Brain

  "Proud atheists". Interview with Steve Paulson, www.salon.com. October 15, 2007.

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• It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

  Martha Plimpton

  Important, Quality, Levels

  "Greg Garcia and Martha Plimpton Talk Raising Hope: Cheaters". Interview with Brian Gallagher, tvweb.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

  Lucy Powell

  Quality, Prevention, Demand

  "Labour created the NHS and has safeguarded its future" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

  Dennis Prager

  Responsibility, Men, Civilization

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• There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the "best" courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

  David Puttnam

  Advice, Looks, Higher Education

  "'I hope we'll achieve the political legitimacy of the games industry'". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2009.

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• Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Relationship, Religious, Freedom

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• I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

  Herbert Read

  Doubt, Evolution, Form

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

  Jodi Rell

  Math, College, Years

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• The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Success, Fitness

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Special, Use

  Special Coverage for the RNC with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. September 4, 2008.

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• Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Basements, Ideals

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

  Karl Rove

  Recovery, Usa, Decision

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• Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

  Helen Rowland

  Nature, Memorable, Men

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.30, Litres

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• Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

  Marco Rubio

  Hurt, Government, Obamacare

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• The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Literature, Vulgar

  John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.798, Library of Alexandria

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• For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Heaven, Earth, Venture

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• I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

  Shawn Ryan

  Thinking, Expectations, Bars

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• You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Jobs, People

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

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• Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Generosity, Giving, Facts

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.758, Simon and Schuster

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• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Compassion, Genuine, Priests

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• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sleep, Insomnia, Redemption

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Education, Children, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

  Rick Scott

  People, Drug, Study

  "Rick Scott says welfare recipients are more likely to use illicit drugs" by Aaron Sharockman, www.politifact.com. June 9, 2011.

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