Surpass Quotes
137 Surpass quotes by 119 unique authors
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The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with…
— James Hansen
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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
— Todd Gitlin
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Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design…
— I. J. Good
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Anytime you are with a horse, no matter if you are a daily rider or one who just gets a chance to ride to the…
— Buck Brannaman
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No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.
— Charles Spurgeon
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In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at…
— Greg Louganis
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The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural…
— Robert Watson-Watt
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Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be…
— Hugh B. Brown
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
— Franz Grillparzer
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If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own…
— D. H. Lawrence
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And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew…
— Lord Byron
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Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them…
— Emile M. Cioran
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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone,…
— Sallust
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Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.
— Romeo Santos
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Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.
— Simon Le Bon
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Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass…
— Criss Jami
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I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture…
— Rian Johnson
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From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass…
— George Nethercutt
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Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of…
— George Will
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From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Who Wrote These Surpass Quotes
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