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  Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Honor

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.303, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I am tired of looking on what is,
  One might as well see beauty never more,
  As look upon it with an empty eye.
  I would this world were over. I am tired.

  Philip James Bailey

  Tired, Eye, Looks

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.149

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• I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

  L. Frank Baum

  Cheer, Tired, Heart

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.4750, Delphi Classics

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• I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Believe, Abuse

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Effort, Style

  Horace Walpole (1848). “Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory, from the Year 1769 to 1797: Now First Printed from Original Mss. Edited, with Notes, by R. Vernon Smith”, p.538

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• If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

  Madame de Stael

  Imagination, Looks, Four

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• Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

  Alice Cary

  Spring, Book, Autumn

  Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.136

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• He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

  Sappho

  Beauty, Looks, Goodness

  Sappho (1925). “The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography”

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• I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

  Gladys Taber

  Dog, Cat, Looks

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• I had the vision of creating my own camp to make sure I was teaching the campers what I wanted. Plus I picked other players that were good on the field and off so we could be great role models for these girls to look up to. I hope to inspire others and encourage them to go after their dreams.

  Jennie Finch

  Girl, Dream, Teaching

  Interview with Art Eddy, manjr.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

  Jim Bouton

  People, Looks

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• I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dirty, Looks, Politician

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• My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.

  Paul Klee

  Uncles, Hero, Eye

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.

  I. A. R. Wylie

  People, Sick, Looks

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• if we look upon awaking as an end or a goal to be accomplished, we deny the truth of presence.

  Albert Low

  Truth, Goal, Looks

  Albert Low (1995). “The World: A Gateway : Commentaries on the Mumonkan”, Tuttle Pub

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• Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

  Dorothee Solle

  Death, Fear, Blessing

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• It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Real, Smart, Winning

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• A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Boys, Feet

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.119, Penguin

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• I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last  There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Real, Deeds Done

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• When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Deities, Looks, Might

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up in the dictionary. The books are shorter, but there's just not that much difference other than that to be honest. And the funny thing is, I have adult writer friends [to whom I would say], "Would you think of writing a children's book?" and they go, "No, God, I wouldn't know how." They're quite intimidated by the concept of it. And when I say to children's books writers, would they write an adult book, they say no because they think they're too good for it.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

  Earl Monroe

  Stars, Guy, Needs

  "'The Pearl' Still Shining: An Interview with New York Knicks Legend Earl Monroe". Interview with Keith Schlosser, bleacherreport.com. November 24, 2009.

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• The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Looks, May, Helping

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.121, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

  Charlie Brooker

  Years, Differences, Smartphones

  "Apple's software updates are like changing the water in a fish tank. I'd rather let the fish die" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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