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  • Norman Mailer The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Jean Cocteau The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Ben Shapiro The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thornton T. Munger The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Doug Horton The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • John Ruskin The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Bennett The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
    The Sabbath (1951) p. 6
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Emma Goldman The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Ben Okri The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Noel Coward The higher the building the lower the morals.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Fred Astaire The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Tony Robbins The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Louise Bogan The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
    Louise Bogan
    American poet (1897 - 1970)
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  • Bradley Whitford The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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