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• Hillary does nothing without careful calculation. She knows that politicians - provided they have real power - who bash entire industries tend to raise huge dollars from individuals in those industries. Certain types of politicians are drawn to this marketing technique because they think the 'bashing' also can be held up as proof that they are not being corrupted. This scheme is called 'putting the squeeze on.' Does that phrase remind you of anything?

  Donald Luskin

  Real, Thinking, Political

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• Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Mother, Children, Giving Up

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• The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs; The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified; The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.

  Lu Tong

  Sweet, Loneliness, Wind

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• It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Believe, Passion

  William Hazlitt (1847). “The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte”, p.236

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• Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Mind, Praise

  "The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".

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• Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Genius, Madness

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• Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.

  Mark Driscoll

  Children, Home, Years

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.

  Mark Driscoll

  Girl, Mother, Jesus

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• My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by his gloriously masculine men who work their jobs, eat their meat, drink their beer, romance their wives, study their Bible, and raise their kids in glory and joy

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Jesus, Jobs

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• In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature.

  Pope Pius XI

  Eye, Air, Effort

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• Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Motivation, Leader, Followers

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the Dachshund and why he can't be trained and shouldn't be. I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a Dachshund to heed my slightest command. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. He even disobeys me when I instruct him in something he wants to do.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Zebras, Book

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• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth!  I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him.  Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning.  But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.

  Jim Elliot

  Stars, Children, Eye

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• In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one's hand, walk an aisle, or pray a 'sinner's prayer.' As a result, the majority of Americans believe that they've been 'born again' even though their thoughts, words, and deeds are a continual contradiction to the nature and will of God.

  Paul Washer

  Prayer, Believe, Hands

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• We cannot convince a man to believe any more than we can raise the dead. Such things are the work of God's Spirit. Men are brought to faith only through the supernatural working of God, and He has promised to work-not through human wisdom or intellectual expertise, but through the preaching of Christ crucified and resurrected from the dead!

  Paul Washer

  Believe, Men, Intellectual

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• The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, War, Thinking

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

  Jim Clyburn

  Low Income, Minimum Wage, Lines

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• It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Easier, Mass

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• Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

  Charles Peguy

  Father, Son, Hands

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• It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.

  Stanislav Grof

  Sex, Essentials, Affair

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.154, SUNY Press

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• Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

  R. H. Tawney

  Government, Investing, Done

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.75, Verso Books

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• Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Fighting, Pension Plans

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• Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
  Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
  So Man, declining always, disappears
  In the weak circles of increasing years;
  And his short tumults of themselves compose,
  While flowing Time above his head does close.

  Andrew Marvell

  Men, Years, Circles

  Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.96

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• Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.

  Thomas French

  Zebras, Distance, Eye

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• We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Cash Flow, Long

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