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• I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

  Paul Banks

  School, House, Finishing

  "Paul Banks and RZA On Their Banks & Steelz Album, Wu-Tang, and Chess". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2016.

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• If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

  Peter York

  Beauty, Animal, Genius

  Peter York (1980). “Style wars”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Struggle, Ideas, Perfection

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• It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Levels, Social, Bigs

  "Peace, love and fairtrade ice-cream" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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• It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Nhl, Guy, Levels

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• A Cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools his children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the 2nd Amendment, and who distrusts Big Government.

  Janet Reno

  Christian, Strong, Children

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• I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sex, Smart, Fighting

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• Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Country, Educational, School

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• Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

  Abraham Maslow

  Success, Creativity, Self

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• And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.

  Ed Rendell

  Space, Quality, Pennsylvania

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• Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.

  Frank Rich

  Taken, Media, Downing Street

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• We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, People, Humanity

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.30, InterVarsity Press

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• Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

  Richard Davidson

  Adversity, Survival, Resilience

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• You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Believe, Self Confidence, People

  Ruhollah Khomeini's address to an audience of Iranian industry workers and inventors (October 1983), as quoted in "Imam's Sahife", Volume 18 (pp. 189-190), December 11, 1983.

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• My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.

  Ali Larter

  Dream, Fun, Drama

  "Ali Larter Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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• Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

  Will Durant

  Men, Progress, Liberty

  Will Durant (2014). “Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

  Shimon Peres

  People, Levels, Easy

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• I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.

  James Cameron

  Mistake, Goal, Levels

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• Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sports, Expression, Goal

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “The David Foster Wallace Reader”, Hachette UK

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• During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Years, Directors, Development

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• How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Stars, Responsibility, Levels

  Jada Pinkett Smith @jada, www.facebook.com. March 10, 2013.

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• I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, Jobs, Team

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• You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

  Ernest Mandel

  Class, Levels, Consciousness

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Character, Perfection, Pay

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• Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.

  Scott Raab

  Pay, Firsts, Levels

  Source: www.esquire.com

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