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• Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, Greatness, Darkness

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• Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of non-possessive love - which is the granting to any other and all others that total space wherein each may grow and soar to his own freely-selected, full potential - reaching out to one another subject-to-SUBJECT, becomes for the first time in history the true working model of a Sharing Consensus!

  Harry Hay

  Space, Circles, Vision

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• A life's record with God in the details can be a spiritual feast for our souls. When we count our blessings on paper, our gratitude soars. It is all so evident.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Life, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.

  Rikki Ducornet

  Love, Children, Wings

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• There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.

  John Galsworthy

  Stars, Spring, Sunset

  John Galsworthy (2001). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
  Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage:
  If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free,
  Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Angel, Iron

  'To Althea, From Prison'

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• When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Nice, Sunset, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Light, Years, Surprise

  "I pick up my pen. A building appears". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2007.

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• Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Spiritual, Views, Theory Of Evolution

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• To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

  Anne Bronte

  Sweet, Fear, Regret

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert. Book by Anne Bronte, 1848.

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• let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Beautiful, Stars, Struggle

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• Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

  Dogen

  Clouds, Wind, Mountain

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• Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

  Giambattista Vico

  Mind, Poetic, Faculty

  Giambattista Vico (1961). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”

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• Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Strong, Dark, Clouds

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• People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand in the dirt. People hate you when you're special; it reminds them of everything that they aren't.

  Robert Crais

  Hate, Men, People

  "The Last Detective". Book by Robert Crais, March 30, 2004.

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• To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Kindness, Islamic

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• The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Clouds, Bird, Tree

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• I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Towers, Wonder

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.306, Random House

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• The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Fighting, Rocks, Eagles

  Karen Kingsbury (2008). “The Timeless Love Collection: A Time to Dance and A Time to Embrace”, p.212, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Animal, Engineering, Sky

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• I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. ... You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall - I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death's despite, And day and night yield one delight once more

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Sweet, Fall, Night

  'Sudden Light'

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• I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing. I am finding new ways to allow myself to soar beyond the parameters of what the writers have written. My key is to commit, and love your character.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Love You, Character, Keys

  "Exclusive: Giancarlo Esposito Talks Current Projects, More; Directing Series On Slave Abolitionist John Brown". Interview by Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of our own rationalization, we say silently to ourselves, 'I'm just too weak,' or 'I'm not cut out for better things.' Others soar beyond our meager accomplishments. Envy and discouragement take their toll. .

  Thomas S. Monson

  Cutting, Accomplishment, Envy

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• I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

  John Knowles

  Desire, Purpose, Firsts

  "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, (p. 14), 1959.

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