Quotes with high-minded

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  • Henry David Thoreau As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Caroline Lawrence At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Fagerbakke Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
    Bill Fagerbakke
    American actor (1957 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • A. E. Housman Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
    Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 48, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • A. J. McLean Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Will Rogers Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Homer But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Ronald Reagan But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Saskya Pandita By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
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  • Brit Morin By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bernard Werber Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.
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  • Arne Jacobsen Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bob Keeshan Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
    As quoted in Commentary: Pre-school Rankings by Susan Hoff KERA Public Newsroom (6 September 2007)
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Plutarch Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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