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• I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Mistake, Moving, Player

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• Content that helps is superior to content that sells.

  Jay Baer

  Helping, Social Media, Sells

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• When people start comparing him with (Michael) Jordan then that's not a fair comparison. Jordan was a far more superior player in a very tough league, he was very creative. That's not taking away anything from LeBron because he is a great player, but it is not a fair comparison because Jordan is a far superior player.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Player, People, League

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• I will believe that what God has placed inside me is superior to the mountains that stand in my way

  Lance Wubbels

  Believe, Mountain, Way

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• The moment we use the term 'help', a kind of egocentric idea enters into us. If we help someone, that means we are in a superior position. When we help, we feel that we are one step ahead or one step higher than the ones that we are helping. But if we serve someone, then we offer our capacity with humility, on the strength of our loving concern and oneness. So let us use the proper term, 'service'.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mean, Humility, Oneness

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• Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

  George Blake

  Country, Fighting, Kgb

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• Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods.

  Huston Smith

  People, Humanity, Religion

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• While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Equality, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

  Oswald Chambers

  Love, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player.

  Scott Yanow

  Player, Bops, Hard

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• The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Men, Ethos

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.276, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It was these same families [Rothschild, Rockefeller, Harriman, Bush, etc] who funded the eugenics movement which is pledged to remove the lower genetic blood streams and leave only those of superior stock. Eugenics today often goes under the title of 'population control'. The best known of the population control organizations is Planned Parenthood which began life under another name at the London offices of the British Eugenics Society.

  David Icke

  Names, Organization, Eugenics

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• Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

  Jacques Delors

  Japan, Europe, America

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• I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.

  Adelle Davis

  Home, Dark, Garden

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• The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

  Steven Pressfield

  War, Doe, Gone

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• It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.

  Timothy Keller

  Forgiving, Impossible, Feels

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.21, Penguin

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• It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

  Henry Tudor

  Science, Men, Skills

  Henry Tudor (1834). “Narrative of a tour in North America: comprising Mexico, the mines of Real de Monte, the United States, and the British colonies; with an excursion to the island of Cuba. In a series of letters, written in the years 1831-2”, p.233

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• This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, Army

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• The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties shall rule the other, the weaker must always succumb. And whether the contest be carried on with ballots or bullets, the principle is the same; for under the theory of government now prevailing, the ballot either signifies a bullet, or it signifies nothing. And no one can consistently use a ballot, unless he intends to use a bullet, if the latter should be needed to insure submission to the former.

  Lysander Spooner

  Strong, Party, Two

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”

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• Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.

  Henry Mitchell

  Journey, Hiking, Long

  Henry Mitchell (2014). “Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

  Matthew Simpson

  Education, Successful, States

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

  Todd Solondz

  Doctors, Optimism, World

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• We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

  Major Owens

  Technology, Cost, Students

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• They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Sheep, Shepherds, Would Be

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.60, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

  Frank Arthur Swinnerton

  Choices, Acquaintance, Company

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