Quotes with raise

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  • Benjamin Watson Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don't go right, you're not up and down, up and down.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Barack Obama My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Brene Brown My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • B. B. King My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That's why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carl Paladino People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Adam Smith People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • John Dryden Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Leonard Cohen Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Brande Roderick That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Cecil J. Sharpe The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.
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  • Pete Sampras The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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  • Bruno Bettelheim The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Norman Mailer The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bill Bennett The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Riley The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Stokely Carmichael The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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