Quotes with high-rise

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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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  • 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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  • David Herbert Lawrence Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Bailey Creationists mainly are Americans who think the world was created in 1982 to coincide with the rise of Super Tramp but you can very easily dispute this by playing some of Super Tramps earlier albums.
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bob Harper CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Barack Obama Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Sigmund Freud Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Confucius Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Carl Forti Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.
    Carl Forti
    American Republican Party strategist (1972 - )
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Ouida Eagles that love the high light-penetrated air,
    that has no dust and clog of earthborn dust,
    must ever dwell in solitude.
    Chandos
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • James Thurber Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • William Blake Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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