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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
Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love. — Fanny Crosby
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
Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites. — Nilakanta Sri Ram
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
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
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. — Unknown Author
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The cat is, above all things, a dramatist. — Margaret Benson
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness. — Carl Van Vechten
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. — John Angell James
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
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
The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above. — Fanny Crosby
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… — AndrÃ© Brink
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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