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• Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Justice, Lawyer, Court

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• Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

  Gerald of Wales

  Thinking, Judging, Answers

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• All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the meterial world, become absorbed in the contemplation of the supreme. None can be regarded as really woken up from sleep till they have renounced all sensuous delights.

  Tulsidas

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• In that moment, there was no place for doubt. I was sitting with the supreme being. I had always sat beside her. She was inside of me.

  Christopher Pike

  God, Doubt, Sitting

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• Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

  Fred F. Fielding

  Practice, Justice, One Day

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• The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Happiness, Self, Life Is

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• Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Brother, Caring, Magic

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.144, Parkstone International

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• If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

  Winston Churchill

  Decay, Empires, Process

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  Adam Clarke

  Perfection, Infinite, Source

  Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian theology, by A. Clarke, selected from his writings, with a life of the author by S. Dunn”, p.70

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• So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Media, White, America

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• I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.

  Richard Flanagan

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Expression

  "Man Booker prize-winner Richard Flanagan's acceptance speech in full" by Richard Flanagan, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.

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• We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Never Forget, Should, Paid

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.237, Pan Macmillan

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• When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say, "I have done this." You would like everybody to know that you have done this and you have done that. This ego is the barrier for the supreme understanding. Drop the doer and let things happen. That's what Tilopa means by being loose and natural.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Attachment, Ego

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• The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Doubt, Triumph, Reason

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• That she bear children is not a woman's significance.
  But that she bear herself,
  that is her supreme and risky fate.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Fate, Bears

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7681, Delphi Classics

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• The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Tasks, Force

  "Honoring Dr. DuBois". Speech at International Cultural Evening at Carnegie Hall, February 23, 1968.

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• I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Men, Perfect

  "Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion". Book by Benjamin Franklin, 1728.

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• I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?

  Ann Voskamp

  Self, Joy, Anxiety

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• Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. "He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Mean, Knowing

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3193, Manonmani Publishers

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• Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Metaphor, Insight

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• A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

  Paul Simon

  Simple, Challenges, Complexes

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• We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

  Cornel West

  Greed, Decision, Goes On

  "Cornel West, A Fighter, Angers Obama Supporters". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Michele Norris, www.npr.org. October 24, 2011.

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• The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

  Julius Evola

  Men, Doe, Slave

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• Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.

  Bruce Lee

  Exercise, Mind, Needs

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• Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Fate, Men, World

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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