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Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body… — Jane Smiley
On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the… — Thomas Jefferson
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good… — Richard Avedon
Virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability… — Will Durant
How can I study from below, that which is above? — Aristophanes
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one… — Robert Fitzgerald
What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But… — James Dickey
Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me.… — Joe Frazier
Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never… — David Kenyon Webster
Nothing below heaven is worth setting our hearts upon. — Richard Baxter
When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into… — Evelyn Waugh
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with… — Laozi
But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize… — Arundhati Roy
...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all. — Arundhati Roy
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve… — Steve Pavlina
Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below — Charles Spurgeon
My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my… — Cyrano de Bergerac

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