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  • Carl Paladino We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • William R. Alger What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • John Buchan What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
    John Buchan
    Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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  • Tony Buzan Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.
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  • Bill Engvall When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ben Horowitz When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Novalis Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Mark Twain Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Fuller Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Martin Luther King One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Helen Keller The highest result of education is tolerance.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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