Highest Order Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings…
— H.G. Wells
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Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and…
— Rajneesh
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In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the…
— Eric Temple Bell
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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it…
— Corinne Heline
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I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
— Rick Moody
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What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses,…
— John Coltrane
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The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly,…
— Ward Churchill
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It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical…
— Bela Bartok
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There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition…
— Anthony Braxton
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It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
— Yanni
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What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.
— Antoine-Augustin Preault
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We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of…
— Sasha Cagen
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A literary achievement of the highest order.
— David Guterson
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See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
— Guru Nanak
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for…
— John Foster
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
— Wendell Berry
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And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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