Highest Degree Quotes
60 quotes by 57 authors
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the…
— Barack Obama
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable…
— Adam Smith
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
— Leo Tolstoy
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
— Charles Darwin
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The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the…
— Winston Churchill
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...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states…
— Hermann Hesse
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For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's…
— Michael Jackson
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There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.
— James Monroe
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If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what…
— Christopher Hitchens
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To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of…
— Martha Graham
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further…
— Saint Ignatius
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My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how…
— Sarah Shahi
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
— Charles Darwin
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
— Unknown Author
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his…
— Thomas Fuller
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TOLERANCE is The Highest Degree of your Strength, And desire to take Revenge is The First Sign of Weakness.
— Pacifiersucker
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The all wise Creator of man imprest certain laws on his nature. A desire of happiness, and of society, are two of those laws. They…
— John Dickinson
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