Higher Quotes - Page 32

• We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

  Donna Shalala

  Taken, School, Skills

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Average

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

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• Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Live Your Life

  "Kimora Lee Simmons Dishes On “Life In The Fab Lane” & Says Goodbye To The Past". Interview with Abiola Abrams, rnbphilly.com.

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• Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.

  Richard Simmons

  Twists, Legs, Too Much

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

  Simon Sinek

  Taken, Thinking, People

  "Thinking Out Loud: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

  Mark Skousen

  Failure, Pay, Ultimate Success

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• When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Strong, Children, Impact

  "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

  Tony Snow

  Confusion, Joy, Lust

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• Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Order, People

  Interview with Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February 2003.

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• The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Morning, Quality, Evening

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Income, Charity

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• Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Mean, Loss

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

  Kevin Spacey

  Inspirational, Success, House

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• There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

  Arlen Specter

  Integrity, Our Society, Values

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Long, Levels, Eras

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• I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fall, Light, Perfect

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• To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.

  Lysander Spooner

  Names, Perfect, Gold

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Economic writings”

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• Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Self

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.484, tredition

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• In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

  Jack Steinberger

  Education, Children, School

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• Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Believe, Circles

  "Inflated Fears". www.newyorker.com. September 14, 2009.

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• We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

  Bob Taft

  Education, Class, Quality

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• Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Struggle, Punishment

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• But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

  Tina Turner

  Believe, Power, Use

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• One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

  Paul Twitchell

  Spiritual, Freedom, Giving

  "All about ECK".

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• Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

  Fred Upton

  Mean, Cutting, Thinking

  'The Rachel Maddow Show', www.nbcnews.com. December 29, 2010.

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