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• Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Law

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• Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

  Daniel Goleman

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Idols, Names, Letters

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

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• We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

  Katherine Dunham

  Museums, Air, Trying

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• Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!

  Joshua

  War, Voice, Giving

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• Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

  Murong Xuecun

  Writing, Cutting, Skills

  "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.

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• The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

  Garrison Wynn

  People, Expectations, Way

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• A positive goal to strive for when disciplining would be to raise children we not only love, but in whose company we love being.

  Magda Gerber

  Children, Love Is, Goal

  Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

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• To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

  Robin Crow

  Expectations, Firsts, Exceed

  Robin Crow (2010). “Evolve or Die: Seven Steps to Rethink the Way You Do Business”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Thinking, Games

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.135, Penguin

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• The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.

  James Payn

  Eyebrows, Ideas, People

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.

  John Yudkin

  Dark, Men, Mcdonalds

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• The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Israel, Iran

  "The Iranian Revolution". "Rear Vision" with Annabelle Quince, www.abc.net.au. February 11, 2009.

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• If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

  Roger Milla

  Football, Hands, Fifa

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• I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Ghouls, Organization

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.

  Richard Armitage

  Iraq, Special, Empty

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• The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light.
  But it is night that raises them to the stars.

  Khalil Gibran

  Stars, Night, Light

  Khalil Gibran (2017). “The garden of the prophet”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• And I want you to notice that one of them, one of the men almost has his tongue hanging out like he's licking his chops. Like this baby is ours now. And that's fine. You may call that love. But it looks to me a little bit like lust. And when they crave to bring the children of heterosexual couples through adoption into their homes, so that they can raise them in the homosexual lifestyle. And studies now show, that up to 20% kids raised by gay couples become gay themselves. It is a recruiting tool. And it is a child abuse tool.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Baby, Children, Couple

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• Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

  Al Alvarez

  Gambling, Games, Cards

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• But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.

  Maria Cantwell

  Hiking, Energy, West

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• I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

  Picabo Street

  People, Mold, Path

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• Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.

  Thomas Menino

  Dream, Children, Boston

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• If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.

  Montel Williams

  Money, Thinking, Cost

  "Montel Williams still the talk of the town". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Cities, Prodigious, Nations

  Clemente Orozco V., José Clemente Orozco (2004). “José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work”, p.5, University of Texas Press

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• What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Light, Trying

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

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