Raises Quotes
1587 Raises quotes by 1234 unique authors
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As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out…
— Ronald Goldman
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True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a…
— Jamie McMurray
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It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.
— Raj Chetty
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I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had…
— Harry Carey, Jr.
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I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.
— Lou Reed
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It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle,…
— Medgar Evers
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The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money, somebody's got to…
— George W. Bush
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The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a…
— Walter Gropius
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Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem... Jerusalem is destined…
— Yasser Arafat
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Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables…
— Gary Snyder
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The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
— Brassai
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So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls... A political victory,…
— Pat Tillman
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I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would…
— Samuel Johnson
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I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and…
— Betty White
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We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our…
— John of Salisbury
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Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.…
— George Washington
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The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other…
— Patrick Henry
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How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it…
— Orson Scott Card
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
— John Dryden
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Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being…
— Jonathan Swift
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The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole -- besides being an…
— Karl Marx
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Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.
— Homer
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Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
— Sappho
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