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• Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Running, Real, Giving

  Richard Paul Evans (1997). “The Letter”

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• For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fall, Christianity, Danger

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• The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.

  Louis Sullivan

  Rising, Lines, Proud

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• The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would recommend that you keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights, so that you may attract only good. Concentrate on giving so that you may open yourself to receiving; concentrate on living according to the light you have so that you may open yourself to more light; get as much light as possible through the inner way.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Light, Feet, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.131, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The record of what you do is forever recoverable because of Google. The lofty upside and scary downside makes reciprocity more important than ever. This is all good because it makes people think more before they do something that reduces their trustworthiness.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thinking, People, Scary

  "Interview: Guy Kawasaki on Reciprocity, Influencers, Ecosystems and the Art of Enchantment". Interview with Ian Greenleigh, www.business2community.com. March 17, 2011.

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• The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

  Ted Turner

  Country, War, Goal

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• Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.

  Bob Marshall

  Distance, Fall, Black

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• It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Standards Set, Decision, And Love

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• The God who made New Hampshire
  Taunted the lofty land
  With little men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.509, Harvard University Press

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• For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

  Susan B. Anthony

  People, Noble, Progressive

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• In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

  Saul Alinsky

  Law, Greed, World

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.13, Vintage

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• Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Expression, Fit

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him. Push aside lofty notions and embrace the workmanlike aesthetic. Hammers above magic wands; nails above eye-of-newt. The magic will return when you're done. The magic is what you did, not what you're doing.

  Chuck Wendig

  Book, Eye, Writing

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• Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.

  Zicheng Hong

  Achievement, Feelings, Taoism

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• Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so people may be able to follow.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Taoism, May

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• A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as being so much more. A friend is someone with whom we can relax and just hang out, have fun and share our innermost thoughts - deep dark secrets, lofty and noble goals, or our hopes, joys, and fears. A good friend allows you a safe space to share your deepest thoughts and needs - without worry of being judged, criticized or made to feel silly for feeling the way you do. Friends cheer each other on, laugh and cry together, and just plain commiserate and listen to each other. That's why friends are friends.

  Jennifer Youngs

  Friendship, Cheer, Fun

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• Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies written by many authors. Some of its myths, like the Star of Bethlehem, are very beautiful. Others are dull and ugly. Some express lofty ideals, such as the parables of Jesus. Others are morally disgusting.

  Martin Gardner

  Beautiful, Religious, Jesus

  Martin Gardner (2001). “Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love - and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Water, Grace

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• So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Thinking, Church, Three

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• I don't want to be lofty when I say this, but I don't know what a success is any more. I know how we define it, but that was a moment where I went, "Wait, who am I?" You could feel the business, in particular, kind of go "He's all right, let's go over here." I started to go, "Wait, I know why I love to do this." I think I got off track in why I love to do it.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Track, Waiting

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors discussing what is called 'Constitutional law,' much of which has no basis in that document....The real question [for judicial nominees] is whether that nominee will follow the law or succumb to the lure of 'a living constitution,' 'evolving standards' and other lofty words meaning judicial power to reshape the law to suit their own personal preferences.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Simple, Law

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• The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.

  Henri Bergson

  Country, Taken, Inspiration

  Henri Bergson's acceptance speech (in the form of a letter) for the Nobel Prize in literature at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hotel in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1928.

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• A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Light, Clothes

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Greatness, Mountain

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• Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Light, Normal

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