Quotes with high-minded

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  • Kurt Vonnegut Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Barney Frank This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • A. P. Herbert This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Abraham Cowley This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Alexis Carrel Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Dhammapada Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anatole France To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • Abdul Kalam To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Woody Guthrie Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
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  • Brad Katsuyama We built a market at IEX that does not sell certain types of technology advantages to high-frequency traders, and as a result, the high-frequency traders that didn't rely on buying those advantages trade on IEX.
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  • Bartlett Sher We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Abigail Adams We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Aristotle Onassis We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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