Higher Quotes
2933 quotes by 2009 authors
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which…
— Mary Somerville
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Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
— Henry Fielding
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It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before…
— Adolf Hitler
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Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so…
— Pope Paul VI
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A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is…
— Peter Kreeft
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The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we kill each other…
— Barack Obama
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Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission -…
— Francis of Assisi
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
— Luigi Pirandello
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Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at…
— E. O. Wilson
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not…
— Seneca the Younger
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One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.
— Rudolf G. Binding
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In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is…
— Brenda Ueland
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Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when…
— Ronald Reagan
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Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the…
— Ronald Reagan
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War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all…
— Smedley Butler
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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of…
— Aristotle
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