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The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

Johan Huizinga

America, Groups, Awareness

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I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth -- the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal.

Martin Luther

Punishment, World, Earth

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Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.

Doc Childre

Truth, Stress, Technology

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Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved.

Wei Wu Wei

Reality, Two, Quality

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John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.

Charles Spurgeon

Flower, Garden, Roots

Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164”, p.103, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

John Locke

Philosophy, Simple, Men

John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes”, p.188

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The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Thinking, Sight, People

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As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

Xavier Dolan

Directors, Different, Actors

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

Baruch Spinoza

Believe, Perfection, Vision

"Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Chapter 1, 1670.

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What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled store of gold, not its giant factories, not its surpassing railroads, not its unprecedented volume of cheap power. Is not its most priceless asset the character of its people, their indomitable self-confidence, their transcendent vision, their sleepless initiative and, perhaps above all, their inherent, irrepressible optimism?

B. C. Forbes

Character, Self Confidence, America

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I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.

Samuel Rutherford

Thinking, Water, Heaven

Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.103

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As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature, Imagination, Usual

Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.

Karl Marx

Party, Hands, Decay

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.368, Oxford University Press, USA

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And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

William Butler Yeats

Women, Phoenix, Mind

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions

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I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the spiritual to the material, and bring themselves to participate in the mighty cause of establishing God's kingdom in the earth, they will find a satisfaction, a sureness of purpose, a peace and contentment, surpassing anything they have ever known.

Stephen L. Richards

Spiritual, Peace, Attitude

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Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the hours of prayer, studying the books of law, and memorizing the Koran. Yet their women show no bashfulness before men and do not veil themselves, though they are assiduous in attending prayers. Any man who wishes to marry one of them may do so, but they do not travel with their husbands, and, even if one desired to do so, her family would not allow her to go. The women have their 'friends' and 'companions' amongst the men outside their own families.

Ibn Battuta

Prayer, Husband, Book

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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Benjamin Disraeli

Accomplishment, People, Despise

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The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law, imply intelligent planning and purpose. Nothing happens of itself. Nowhere, in the age-old experience of man, has continued order been found except as the product of intelligent direction.

John Andreas Widtsoe

Intelligent, Men, Order

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The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Bible, Book, Tables

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A richer present I design,
A finished form, of work divine,
Surpassing all the power of art;
A thinking head, a grateful heart.

Mary Barber

Gratitude, Art, Grateful

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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

Richard Owen

Character, Science, Order

Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science "Report on British Fossil Reptiles" (1842)

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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

Quintilian

Men, Trying, Followers

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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

Wise, War, Moving

"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Laozi

Being Strong, Stay Strong, Hard Times

Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.113, Chinese University Press

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And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

Martin Heidegger

Distance, Men, Doe

Martin Heidegger (1969). “The essence of reasons”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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