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  • Joseph Addison The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Felix Adler Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Aristotle If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lyman Abbott The highest qualities of character… must be earned.
    Lyman Abbott
    American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. (1835 - 1922)
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  • Henry Ford There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • A. Philip Randolph A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Adrian Cronauer A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • George Eliot A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert South Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Billy Corgan Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
    Icon Magazine. April 1998
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie Aim for the highest.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • William Holden All actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.
    William Holden
    American actor (1918 - 1981)
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Alan Cohen Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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