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• It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has… — Simone de Beauvoir
• God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. — William Ellery Channing
• There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the… — Oliver Goldsmith
• Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure,… — Thomas Huxley
• Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common… — Mary Wollstonecraft
• The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred… — Wilkie Collins
• Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening. — Mary Wigman
• When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature… — Wilkie Collins
• His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of… — Peter Ackroyd

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