Higher Quotes - Page 15

• Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Use, May, Transcendentalism

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.410, Bantam Classics

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• A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.

  Dion DiMucci

  Moving, Home, Heart

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• My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.

  Talib Kweli

  Creativity, Artist, Creating

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?

  Bart Millard

  Song, Real, Writing

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• We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost is unaffordable for many working class families. Higher education must be a right for all - not just wealthy families.

  Bernie Sanders

  Moving, College, Years

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• I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Dog, Taken

  To the Peel Commission on a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, 1937.

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• When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

  Kevin Hart

  Office, Hollywood, Different

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• I buy mainly Beatles bootlegs and stuff like that. I'm hoping I can go there today. My dad buys my drawings and he re-sells them for quite a bit more and then he puts the money in my savings. I just draw all the time and he buys and I get a lot money [laughs]. It's great. My dad's my best manager I ever had. If I get richer, I'd like to be able to buy more of the real collectible Beatles things. I just need a little more money to be a higher class collector [laughs].

  Daniel Johnston

  Dad, Real, Class

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• [The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.

  Francis Collins

  Average, Type 2 Diabetes, Risk

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly.

  Apollonius of Tyana

  Art, Healing, Long

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• We need the best educated workforce in the world. Hundreds of thousands of bright, young, qualified people who want to go to college or get a higher education are unable to do so, not because they lack the ability but because they lack the money.

  Bernie Sanders

  College, People, Needs

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• An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.

  Kalle Lasn

  Higher Ground, Numbers, People

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• Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Night, Clouds, Light

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• There are a lot of voices inside of us. We have the voices of our parents, our grandparents, our society, our bosses, our own should's and shouldn'ts, and our self-worth is in us, controlling us a lot. When we can get past all of those, and get to the deep, core part of us, there's a voice within our soul that I believe is connected to our Divine or Higher Self. That voice within is there to guide us through all aspects of our lives.

  Echo Bodine

  Believe, Self Worth, Past

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Years, Names, Once Upon A Time

  "Looking back on New Labour" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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• Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

  Confucius

  Men, Height

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• When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

  Luke Goss

  Men, Expectations, Roles

  Interview with Eric Moro and Brian Linder, www.ign.com. February 6, 2008.

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• Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich. Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which you'll be thankful.

  Ralph Marston

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Rich

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• People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.

  Ben Stein

  Grandchildren, People, Want

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• It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Steps, Staircases, Mark

  Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfil other physical functions of which perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also to constitute the material organism of beings exercising functions of life and mind as high or higher than ours are at present is a question far transcending the limits of physical speculation.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Exercise, Mind, Body

  James Clerk Maxwell (1952). “Scientific Papers”

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• There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.

  John Shelby Spong

  Angel, People, Perfect

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.

  George Brett

  Average, Mad, Waiting

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• The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

  Radhanath Swami

  Challenges, Age, Principles

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• In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

  Radhanath Swami

  Focus, Principles, Attention

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