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• My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Self, Hands

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• Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Memories, Self, Giving

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government, Income, Persons

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• Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Men, Epidemics, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner (2013). “The Essential Rudolf Steiner”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
  
  [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

  Desmond Tutu

  Voice, Addresses, Foundation

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• The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

  Seth Godin

  Example, Bars, Facts

  Seth Godin (2015). “We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal”, p.49, Penguin

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• Since there is no place large enough
  to contain so much happiness,
  you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you
  into everything you touch. You are not responsible.
  You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit
  for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it,
  and in that way, be known.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Moon, Night, Hands

  Naomi Shihab Nye, “So Much Happiness”

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• There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

  Julius Streicher

  Book, Greek, Christianity

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• Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

  Horace Greeley

  Religion, Church, Trying

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• Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Father, Fool

  "CBS's Smith to 'Father-in-Chief' Obama: 'Where Did You Learn to Love?'". www.newsbusters.org. June 22, 2009.

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• Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.

  George Harrison

  Voice, Choices

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• It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Community, Needs

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• No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

  Gloria Steinem

  Responsibility, Decision, Flags

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• Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

  Sophocles

  Men, Demise, He Man

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• If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

  Grace Napolitano

  Aggravation, Benefits, Investment

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• There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Heaven, Littles

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• The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Goal, Survival, Levels

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• Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

  John Norquist

  Cities, People, Evening

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• We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Issues, Car

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.26, Counterpoint Press

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• True Love comes into being when you practice the highest possible love in the lowest possible place. There you deal with impossible people and try to raise them into the highest possible people by showing them the highest possible standard. There is where True Love can be found and can start.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Practice, People, Trying

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• The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Men, Philosopher, Black Power

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Morning, Stars

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• The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

  Barry Lane

  Writing, School, Quality

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• Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Hands, Agriculture

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.213, Best Books on

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• I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

  Richard Lugar

  Friendship, Russia, Glasses

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