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  • Adlai Stevenson II The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Konrad Adenauer We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
    Konrad Adenauer
    German politician (1876 - 1967)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason 'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
    Source: Life and the student (1927)
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Marcel Proust A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Arnold Bennett A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Anzia Yezierska A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Barbra Streisand A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Baer A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Eileen Caddy A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Lao-Tzu A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Adolf Galland According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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