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• God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Way, Imagine, Compassionate

  Rachel Held Evans (2014). “Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions”, p.64, Zondervan

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• It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush I—almost always lose. The last president who lost reelection without a serious primary challenge, by contrast, was Herbert Hoover. But in truth, the chances that Obama will face a primary challenge are vanishingly slim, and the chances that he will lose reelection only slightly higher. No wonder conservatives are fantasizing about Hillary Clinton taking down Barack Obama. If she doesn't, it's unlikely they will.

  Peter Beinart

  Challenges, President, Would Be

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• I believe we all create our paths before we are born to each lifetime, in partnership with a higher presence, the Source.  I also believe, once born, we are given the highest gift of free will.  Intuition is our link between our chosen journey on our life path and our earthly choices using free will.

  Christine Whelan

  Believe, Journey, Choices

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• I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

  Allan Stratton

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Spiritual, Men, Order

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• I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.

  Ani DiFranco

  Atheist, Responsibility, People

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• This isn't higher education studying itself. There are a lot of higher education people here. But there are also people here who are directly involved in whether or not (the United States is) going to have the good jobs in the future.

  James Hunt

  Jobs, People, United States

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• This isn't higher education studying itself.

  James Hunt

  Study, Higher Education

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• Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, League, Brooks

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• Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Memories, People

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• The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

  Brassai

  Art, People, Purpose

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• The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Greatness, Punishment, Criminals

  Thomas Aquinas, T. C. O'Brien (2006). “Summa Theologiae: Volume 27, Effects of Sin, Stain and Guilt: 1a2ae. 86-89”, p.25, Cambridge University Press

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• Your life is a kind of laboratory where you're constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. Human beings must create; it's hardwired. The question is, are you consciously creating or only sleepwalking through your human life?

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Life, Creating, Knowing

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• I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspiring, Goal, Trying

  "Beyonce Reveals New Album Title:4" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 11, 2011.

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• This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Anger, House, Littles

  Helen Oyeyemi (2007). “The Icarus Girl”, p.189, Anchor

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• There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

  Charles Baudelaire

  God, Men, Two

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.

  Paul Klee

  God, Sarcasm, Men

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Different, Behavior

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

  Robert Greene

  Keys, Years, Use

  Robert Greene (2014). “The Concise Mastery”, p.118, Profile Books

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• The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Should, Behave

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• The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

  Jim Knight

  Mean, Expectations, Challenges

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• There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Pain, Opportunity

  Phillips Brooks (1881). “The Candle of the Lord: And Other Sermons”

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• Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Pain, Block

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.93, Beacon Press

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• Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

  Laozi

  Fear, Winning, Favors

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching”

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• By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.

  David F. Houston

  Home, Eggs, Glasses

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