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  • Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
  • Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
  • You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
  • The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and sits future is highly uncertain.
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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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  • Thorstein Veblen The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Plutarch A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Ida R. Wylie Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
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  • Guy Debord Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Baruj Benacerraf As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • George Orwell As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Carol Loomis Every regulatory speech on derivatives takes a bow to their hedging 'benefits.' Less publicly, regulators pay their respects to derivative profits, a blessed relief from the banks' troubled loans to less-developed countries, highly leveraged companies, and real estate swingers.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Bill Lipinski Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • James Allen He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Saki He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Ben Bernanke Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Roger Moore I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Beyonce Knowles I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Sir Isaac Newton If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Alex Grey In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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