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• It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.

  John Ratey

  Moving, Play, Brain

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• To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.

  Sean Faircloth

  Caring, Calling, Embrace

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• Stop judging life! Look at every event as blessed. It is offering you the fastest track to get onto your highest, happiest and most successful state. Your soul is working it all out perfectly. When you accept this you will make life amendments easily and lovingly. Then the pain stops and the joyous creation begins.

  Melanie

  Pain, Blessed, Successful

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• The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Perfection, Mind

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1956). “On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: pts. 1-2. Providence”

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• Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hypocrite, Mean, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3516, Delphi Classics

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• If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Disappointed, Lowest, Ifs

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.215, Cambridge University Press

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• What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

  Aristotle

  Good Life, Successful, Agreement

  Aristotle, Renford Bambrough (1963). “The philosophy of aristotle, a new selection with an introd. and commentary by Renford Bambrough. New translations by A. E. Wardman and J. L. Creed”

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• It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Brain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.127

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• We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Beer, Thinking, Earthquakes

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Aes Triplex'.

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• What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

  Edmund Spenser

  Weed, Nature, Fall

  Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck (1866). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.63

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• But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

  Edmund Spenser

  Smart, Heart, Thrones

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 2, stanza 23. buxom = 'yielding'.

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• Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, World, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.78

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• Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Accomplishment, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

  "Foundations of the Republic; Speeches and Addresses" by Calvin Coolidge, 1926.

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• I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.

  Larry Bird

  Nba, Levels, Wanted

  "Life Is Still Good For Coach Larry". Post-Tribune, October 30, 1997.

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• And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.

  Charles Kingsley

  Father, Forever, Heaven

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.147

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• O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

  John Milton

  Wise, Angel, Men

  1665 Adam speaking of Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.888-95.

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• Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

  John Milton

  Men, Wings, Design

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.629-32.

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• To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

  John Milton

  War, Home, Men

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.504

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• In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Average, World

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Self, Suffering, Overcoming

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Philosophy, Prejudice, Common

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teaching, Mean, Simple

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mind, Opinion, Turns

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (p. 170), 1901.

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• The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Interesting, Accomplish, Subjects

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Teaching, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1993). “Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast”, p.8, Dundurn

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