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  • Albert J. Nock Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Judith Viorst Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Herbert Kaufman Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
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  • Ralph Ransom Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga No authority is higher than reality.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Barbara Corcoran No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • William S. Gilbert No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius Nothing is higher than the love of truth.
    Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
    Roman Christian poet
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Barack Obama Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
    Speech, 04-12-2014
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • B. W. Powe Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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