Finest Quotes - Page 13

• But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Usa, People

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• The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Being Yourself, Fall

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• When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God's finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven.

  Greg Laurie

  Real, Sunset, Views

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• The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.

  George W. Bush

  Science, Medicine, Goal

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• The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Powerful, Law Of Attraction, Vibrations

  Charles F. Haanel (2013). “The Master Key System & Mental Chemistry”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Flower, Humble, Ignorance

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• Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Weed, Flower

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• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Moving, Fall

  Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60

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• We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways to go, all but one bound to be wrong, and the richness of the selection in such situations can lift us onto totally new ground.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Two, Dancing

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

  G. H. Hardy

  Love, Sacrifice, Math

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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• The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

  Thomas More

  Life, Death, Animal

  Thomas More (2016). “More: Utopia”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Doctors, Blood

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• Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

  Robert Wright

  Greatness, Territory, Information

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.377, Vintage

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• The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.

  Robert Wyland

  Lying, Ocean, Marine

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• We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees.

  Rudolf Hess

  Peace, Believe, Perfect

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• The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

  Chuck LaMar

  Sports, Baseball, Loss

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• Life in the open is one of my finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become for a time, a part of nature. Deer hunting is a classical exercise in freedom. It is a return to fundamentals that I instinctively feel are basic and right.

  Fred Bear

  Exercise, Opportunity, Hunting

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• I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.

  Bill W.

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

  Annie Besant

  Writing, Names, Captivity

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.425, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Cinema, Film

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• The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, United States

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• The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

  Louise Slaughter

  Country, Fall, Moving Forward

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• Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Heart, World, Tongue

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• I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Long, Poet

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