Quotes with rising

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  • Srully Blotnick Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.
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  • Bernard Bailyn It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Emily Dickinson Let us go in; the fog is rising.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • T. S. Eliot Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Springsteen My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • André Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Our greatest glory consists not in never failing but in rising every time we fall.
    The Citizen of the World (1762) - door Lien Chi Altangi (Oliver Goldsmith)
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Samuel Johnson Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Washington Irving Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Carl Sagan Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
    Cosmos
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Barack Obama Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • George Grosz The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
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  • Bobby Sands The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christopher Fry The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate.
    Christopher Fry
    English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • André Gide The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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