Higher Quotes - Page 8

• It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Historical, Mind

  "Philosophy in a New Key". Book by Susanne Langer, 1941.

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• One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

  Helen Keller

  Facts, Behave, Ifs

  Helen Keller (1940). “Let Us Have Faith”

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• I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.

  B. H. Roberts

  Children, Father, Purpose

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• We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Horizon, Levels

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• To see farther, you must climb higher.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Climbs

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• I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.

  Charlie Sheen

  Sleep, Night, Car

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• Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Islands, Order, Sea

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• Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

  John Naisbitt

  Expectations, Revolutionary, Speed

  John Naisbitt (2006). “Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future”, HarperBusiness

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• People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

  Tom Rath

  Jobs, Loneliness, People

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses - a common possession for instruction and recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Thinking, Should Have

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• Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Reality, Thinking, Soul

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• I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Thinking, Degrees, Violence

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• For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Feelings, Building, Architect

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• It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.

  Leanne Payne

  Reality, Self, Practice

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• The Sexual Revolution offered us women this deal: you can particiapate in higher education and the labor market, as long as you agree to chemically neuter yourselves during your twenties, and endure expensive, humiliating, and possibly dangerous infertility treatment during your thirties and forties.

  Jennifer Morse

  Long, Twenties, Revolution

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• The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Wages, Fewer

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• In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.

  Dick Morris

  Cancer, Eight, Waiting

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• Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is reasonable. And by the fact that they bring capital into these countries, they bring about a trend toward higher wage rates.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Moving, Facts

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• Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even further. And this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. When people say, 'Oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich. They'll go on strike, they'll move to another country.' But within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher. And these people did just fine. I just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Country, Memories, Moving

  "Bill Moyers: Where the Right Went Wrong". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.truth-out.org. February 12, 2012.

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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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• If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don't have to know any higher math.

  Charlie Munger

  Math, Want, Good Things

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• President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry "class warfare" if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Wall, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.

  Mark Steyn

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Perseverance, Moving, Good Friend

  "Pierce Brosnan on How It All Began — and How Bond Ended". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. August 22, 2014.

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• Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

  Bill Gates

  Two, People, Earth

  "Bill Gates: here's my plan to improve our world - and how you can help". www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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