Levels Quotes - Page 10

• On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Men, Grassroots

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• Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

  William Golding

  Jobs, Writing, Bird

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.139, Faber & Faber

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• I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

  Duff Goldman

  Maturity, College, Years

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• The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, Track, Disaster

  "Gabe Newell Disses PS3" by Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. January 15, 2007.

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• The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

  Martin Gardner

  Book, Lasts, Idiot

  Introduction to "The Annotated Alice. The Definitive Edition" by Lewis Carroll, 1999.

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• One day I was watching these construction workers go back to work. I was watching them kind of trudging down the street. It was like a revelation to me. I realized these guys don’t want to go back to work after lunch. But they’re going. That’s their job. If they can exhibit that level of dedication for that job I should be able to do the same. Trudge your ass in.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Jobs, Dedication, Construction Workers

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• Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

  Mary Cheney

  Wyoming, Retail, Done

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• It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

  Terence McKenna

  Law, World, Fractals

  "Terence Mckenna's Last Trip". WIRED Inteview, www.wired.com. May 1, 2000.

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• By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of progress are the natural features of life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Simple, Perfect, Meditation

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• Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

  Mary Daly

  Self, Psychics, Insulting

  Mary Daly (2016). “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism”, p.307, Beacon Press

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• It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Competition, Wages, Banking

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• John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator.

  Albert Ayler

  Spiritual, Trying, Way

  "As Serious As Your Life". Book by Valerie Wilmer, 1977.

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• I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.

  Mark Spitz

  Drug, Able, Cholesterol

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• What makes iPhone 5 so unique is how it feels in your hand. The materials… the remarkable precision. Never before have we built a product with this extraordinarily level of fit and finish.

  Phil Schiller

  Unique, Iphone, Hands

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• This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.

  Marc Benioff

  Next Level, Asking, Clients

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• In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

  Michael Behe

  Profound, Scientist, Complexity

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Civilization, Term, Written

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• The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood.' - HAROLD PINTER A $19 trillion price tag since 1940 for past, present, and future wars reveals our addiction to war and bloodshed.

  Philip Berrigan

  Baby, War, Eye

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• When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

  W. E. B. Griffin

  Decision, Proportion, Angry

  W. E. B. Griffin (2004). “By Order of the President”, Putnam Adult

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• I believe that there are three conditions to a woman’s beauty. First, you must realize that not all women are beautiful all of the time. Sometimes beauty comes on a subconscious level. When she is in love, or has met someone new and exciting, she shines. Second, you must understand that life is unfair. Beauty is something that, for some, must be worked at. The third condition is luck. Some women can just be lucky.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Beautiful, Believe, Shining

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• If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.

  Alan Shearer

  Player, Long, Shooting

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• Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.

  Carroll Quigley

  Country, Government, Bankers

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• It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

  Maya Lin

  War, Artist, Names

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• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mean, Warfare, Needs

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• If you're starting out or trying to get to the next level, surround yourself with people who keep you motivated and energized - people who inspire you to achieve your best every day. When you do this, you can't lose.

  Anthony Famiglietti

  People, Inspire, Trying

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