Quotes with supreme

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  • Max Eastman Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
    The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Edward Gibbon I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Seneca If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Blake Farenthold In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Aristotle In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Arthur Keith In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Camille Paglia In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Scott In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • William Cowper It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Alex Grey It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme Deity.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Ansel Adams Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Butch Trucks Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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