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• Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Depth, Done

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• At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Periods

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• Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

  Max Beckmann

  Space, Infinity, Depth

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

  Stephen Fry

  Six, Reason, Inches

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• Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

  Brad Henry

  Family, Inspiration, Comfort

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• The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Determined, Pinnacle, Breadth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.310, Library of America

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• Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clever, Intelligent, Valleys

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 76e), 1980.

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• Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  "Perceive This! : How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life by Changing Your Perceptions". Book by Kevin A. Martin, 2004.

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• I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

  Kate Hudson

  Rocks, Sides, Building

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• We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

  Maria Mitchell

  Country, Travel, Inspiration

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Fall, Loss

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 24, 2015

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• The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

  David Hume

  Army, Government, Patriotism

  Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Stars, Careers, Hiking

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• Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fortune, Casts, Raised

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

  Paul Farmer

  Medicine, Depth, Critique

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• To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

  Jim Gibbons

  Government, Dollars, Bonus

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• Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Warfare, Literature, Impossible

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• I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Ocean, Heart, Years

  Leni Riefenstahl (1992). “The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl”

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• Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Principles, Add

  Laurence Sterne (1811). “The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life”, p.240

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• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Achievement, Add, May

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• What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

  Kate Bush

  Mind, Use, My Own

  Interview with Brendan Martin, www.brendan.co.uk. April 7, 1978.

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• I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

  August Wilson

  Firsts, Poet, Social

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• When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.

  Dion Fortune

  Mean, Way, Path

  Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.29, Dion Fortune

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• Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Together, Kind, Scene

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• Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Agreement, Harmony, Building

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12

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