Quotes with highest-risk

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• The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

  ― Burton Cummings
  Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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• The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  ― Anais Nin
  French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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• The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.

  ― Alan Cohen
  American businessman (1954 - )
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• The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

  ― Samuel Smiles
  Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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• The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

  ― Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

  ― Juvenal
  Roman poet
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• The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

  ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

  ― Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

  ― Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
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• The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

  Source: Motivation and Personality (1954)

  ― Abraham H. Maslow
  American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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• The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.

  ― Bee Wilson
  British food writer, journalist and historian
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• The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

  ― Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  ― Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

  Source: The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

  ― Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  ― Wayne Gretzky
  Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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• The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

  Source: Ethics

  ― Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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• The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

  ― Wayne Dyer
  American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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• The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

  ― George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

  Source: The quotable Billy Graham (1966)

  ― Billy Graham
  American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• congratulations
• understanding
• autobiography
• forevermore
• consecrated
• understand

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