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4277 Above quotes by 2732 unique authors
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
— Fanny Crosby
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.
— Nilakanta Sri Ram
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I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family,…
— Peter Salovey
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It's very hard to win without any problems. To win, you have to fight. And many times, this fight means to indispose in certain ways…
— Ayrton Senna
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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
— Unknown Author
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Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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...rise above selfishness. This includes spiritual selfishness, when one looks toward personal edification and strengthening and has no other interest than one's own salvation. To…
— Hans B. Ringger
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When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed…
— John Edgar Wideman
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Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength,…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it…
— Hudson Taylor
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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living…
— Benjamin E. Mays
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To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as…
— Baroness Orczy
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Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a…
— Donna J. Haraway
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As…
— H. Bentley Glass
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The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.
— Margaret Benson
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Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
— Carl Van Vechten
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Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
— John Angell James
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Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars,…
— Lyman Spitzer
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From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the…
— Tycho Brahe
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
— Fanny Crosby
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When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one…
— André Brink
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Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul,…
— Harold Urey
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