Levels Quotes - Page 28

• The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

  Ric Keller

  Causes, Income, Small Business

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• A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists.

  Deepak Chopra

  Problem, No Problem, Confronting

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• I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

  Kurt Sutter

  Determination, Children, Artist

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• Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy

  John Holdren

  Growth, Environmental, Energy

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• The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature.

  Carl Jung

  Angel, Men, Hands

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.263, Princeton University Press

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• I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.

  Kathy Mattea

  Song, Artist, Shining

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• Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.

  Ronald Reagan

  Character, Air, Water

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.55, Humanix Books

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• ... the world of nature is by no means absent from the eschatological program set out in the NT. While rarely rising to the level of an explicit emphasis, and never the chief concern in and of itself, the world of nature is an integral component of God's new creation work.

  Douglas J. Moo

  Mean, Rising, World

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• To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

  Ornette Coleman

  Two, Existence, Multiple

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Hurt, Home

  Interview with Matt Okie, www.identitytheory.com. September 2, 2008.

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• There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Play, Giving

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Women are still chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics at both a local and national level... But there is one city where those three top jobs will be filled by women for the next year. And that city is Washington D.C.

  Chuck Todd

  Jobs, Years, Cities

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 4, 2015.

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• If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

  Olive Schreiner

  Running, Rocks, Blue

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• The point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understand ing so that when we’re done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisions, because that will determine whether we’re fulfilled. Not the quality of our poses. But really the yoga is what happens when we’re done practicing yoga.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Self, Practice

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• All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

  Banksy

  War, Graffiti, Revolution

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• Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Fall, Order, Together

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• Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Christian, Grace, Mountain

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• History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Teacher, Simple, Labour Movement

  Speech to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL - CIO), December 11, 1961.

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• There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.

  Mark Lilla

  Party, Leader, Political

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• I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

  Phil Jackson

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• I'm only in competition with my last level.

  Erykah Badu

  Adventure, Competition, Lasts

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• But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

  Marvin Minsky

  Doe, Bigs, Programming

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• Education begins at the level of the learner.

  Aristotle

  Education, Learning, Learners

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• When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Animal, Littles

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Communication, Intensity, Communion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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