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Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others.… — Swami Vivekananda
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a… — Thomas Sprat
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit by… — Jack Handey
We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed… — Helen Keller
The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain… — Nathaniel Branden
I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland — Mike Ingham
Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it. — Boris Becker
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must,… — Noel Coward
The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art. — Romain Rolland
The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort.… — Laurence Sterne
The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our… — Johann Baptist Metz
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections… — Mary Wollstonecraft
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of… — Kenny Smith
Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty… — Kofi Annan
The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve. — Laozi
Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a… — Baltasar Gracian
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two… — Alfred Adler
I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out… — Winston Churchill
If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I… — Winston Churchill
Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration. — Van Day Truex
Above all, India is the land of religion. — Swami Vivekananda
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. — Swami Vivekananda
The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all. — Nicky Gumbel
Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those… — Emanuel Lasker

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