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• In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, People, Servant

  "The Real Benjamin Franklin".

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• All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Deception, Enemy

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  I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

  William Golding

  Strong Women, Thinking, Novelists

  YouTube Chanel "AbecedariusRex"/ "Golding's Introduction to Lord of the Flies", www.youtube.com. May 22, 2010.

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• It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

  George Jean Nathan

  Memories, Philosophy, Self Esteem

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• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Originality

  "Prejudices: Third Series (Le Contrat Social)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1922.

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• Advise and you will feel superior. Serve and you will feel gratitude.

  Julio Olalla

  Gratitude, Advise, Feels

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• That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.

  John Calvin

  Humble, Men, Sight

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Matthew”, p.360, Ravenio Books

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• Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.

  Bell Hooks

  Strong, Powerful, Party

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• The invisible realm is superior and far more real than the visible realm.

  John Paul Jackson

  Real, Invisible, Realms

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• Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Credit, Blame

  Twitter post from May 31, 2016

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, Skills

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• The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Two, Mind, Able

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

  James E. Faust

  Humble, Miracle, Faithful

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• Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Meditation, Midst, Thousand

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• Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Imagination, Happy Day

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.58, Bantam

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• We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Long, Principles

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• If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior to His divinity, then also was there the Father's Son, having in the Father a timeless beginning, like the sun's great circle of overwhelming clear light.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Father, Son

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• All angels bring revelations and tidings of their superiors. The first bring word of God who is their inspiration, while the others, according to where they are, tell of those inspired by God... the holiest of the seraphim 'cry out to one another' (Is. 6:3)... this shows that the first ranks pass on to the second what they know of God.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Inspiration, Angel

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• ...we must all offer up a hymn of praise to the God... who is 'Lord of lords' (Deut. 10:17, Ps. 136:1, I Tim. 6:15, Rev. 17:14, 19:16)... Lordship is not simply a matter of being superior with respect to inferiors but a complete possession of all that is beautiful and good, and is furthermore a true and unshakable stability.

  Pope Dionysius

  Beautiful, Christian, Hymns

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• Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all of it. He moves well, using his senses fully. He is not preoccupied with irrelevancies. He's not thinking about his job or his image or his income tax. He is putting first things first, principally his physical security. Do likewise.

  Jeff Cooper

  Jobs, Moving, Cat

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.14, Paladin Press

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• You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

  John Irving

  Book, Simple, House

  "Wrestling Life Into Fable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.

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• Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ideas, Racism, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!

  Aleister Crowley

  Eye, Isis, Mouths

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• You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

  Steve Backley

  Believe, Luck, Desire

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• The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Divine, Loud, Music Is

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