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• In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Lonely, Two, Darkness

  Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Kings, Taken, Blessing

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• That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Thinking, Feet

  "Small Gods". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 33), 1963.

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• And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.

  Robert Fulghum

  Confused, People, Imagination

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.167, Ballantine Books

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• This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.

  Robert James Waller

  Fall, Love You, Years

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.109, Random House

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• Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Thinking, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2015). “Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.13, Melville House

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• Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Thoughtful, Night

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• It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

  Tom Wolfe

  Funny, Leadership, Believe

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• Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Children, Powerful, Men

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.147, Pan Macmillan

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• Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Spiritual, Achievement, Soul

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2014). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life: Personal, Practical, and Powerful--An Invitation to Live Life at Its Most Blessed”, p.104, Barbour Publishing

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• One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Idols, America

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• Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.

  H. Allen Smith

  Hate, Wrath, Civilization

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• The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Evil, Assumption

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• I also would have steered clear of politics. I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. But looking back I know I sometimes cros­sed the line, and I wouldn’t do that now.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Grateful, Opportunity

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• A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited . . . they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.

  Kristian Birkeland

  Lonely, Majority, Pioneers

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• It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.

  Elinor Lipman

  People, Degrees, Lessons

  Elinor Lipman (2007). “My Latest Grievance”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.

  Sun Tzu

  Running, Art, Military

  Sun Tzu (2017). “El Arte de la Guerra – The Art of War (Sun Tzu)”, p.51, PLUTÓN EDICIONES X SL

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• Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Eye, Power, Heaven

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• Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.

  Cesar Chavez

  Powerful, Struggle, Justice

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.207, Penguin

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• Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Rain, Sea, People

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.391

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• And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

  Neil Peart

  Giving Up, Heart, Don't Give Up

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• From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Military, Home, America

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

  Charles Simmons

  Love, Honesty, Integrity

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• Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Men, Obscurity

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