Highest Quotes
2429 quotes by 1578 authors
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Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can…
— Ban Ki-moon
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For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the…
— Robert Jastrow
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It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not…
— George Washington
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No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last…
— Charles Babbage
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Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past…
— Stephen Colbert
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Heating bills this winter are the highest they've been in five years, but President Bush has a plan to combat rising bills. It's called global…
— Jay Leno
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Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?
— Bill Walton
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The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.
— Winston Churchill
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America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of…
— Billy Graham
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
— Aristotle
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Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning…
— Robert Heilbroner
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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me,…
— Adolf Hitler
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Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to…
— Adolf Hitler
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on…
— Adolf Hitler
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or…
— Margaret Mead
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The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences
— Frank Herbert
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