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The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. — G I Gurdjieff
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi,… — Konrad Lorenz
You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on,… — Tom Petty
We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a… — Mary McLeod Bethune
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their… — Samuel Hopkins Adams
To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet… — Mahatma Gandhi
Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you. — Ibn Hazm
But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody. — Marcus Allen
I admit that I sometimes climbed on other fellows' backs. But I used to watch the flight of the ball perhaps more than the other… — Unknown Author
All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along… — Unknown Author
We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us. — Peter Cosgrove
In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations… — Peter Cosgrove
If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of… — Graeme Samuel
The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. — Chief Joseph
I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in… — Red Cloud
You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and… — Phil Jones
With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of… — Barack Obama
I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say... — Sitting Bull
We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own. — Maurice Maeterlinck
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did… — Primo Levi
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs… — Paul Brown
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. — Eduard Hanslick
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. — John Dryden
Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on. — Philip James Bailey

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