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Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state,… — Eckhart Tolle
Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs… — Charles Baudelaire
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth. — Mark Twain
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call… — Thomas Carlyle
I like a hem below my knee even though I was blessed with fairly good gams. — Lynda Resnick
Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and… — Teju Cole
I am intimidating no one in America. No one feels like they are below me in any way. They feel like they are absolutely either… — Mike Birbiglia
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same… — Joan Didion
Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our… — Benjamin E. Mays
When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it… — Eddie Rickenbacker
I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to… — Jim Himes
The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded coombes below the… — Henry Williamson
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All… — Rose George
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. — Noam Chomsky
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office,… — Noam Chomsky
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop… — Shukla Bose
Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and… — Stephen Kinzer
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs. — Alex Berenson

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