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• Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.

  Veronica Roth

  Eyebrows, Mimicking, Holding On

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy!

  Vera Nazarian

  Stars, Moon, Light

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• All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.

  G. B. Caird

  Destiny, Men, Names

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• Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

  Charlie Haden

  Music, Art, Creative

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• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  Ralph Marston

  Motivational, Learning, Reality

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• It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Believe, Men

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• Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

  Pete Townshend

  Teenage, Eye, Cry

  Song: Baba O'Riley

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• Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or something." "Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?" Tobias raises his eyebrows. "They are brought into being by sheer force of will," the woman on the arm of the chair interjects. "Didn't you know that, Tobias?" "No, I wasn't aware." He grins. "My apologies.

  Veronica Roth

  Children, Apology, Men

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• My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Life, Work, Eye

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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• Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Trying, Quality, Routine

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• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Real, Creativity

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• If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Parent, Going Away

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rest Of Life, People, Challenges

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• It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Couple, Soul

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• The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Organization, Impact

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• What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

  Annie Dillard

  Differences, Blue, Whales

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.66, Canongate Books

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• What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Freedom, Mean, Army

  House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, August 17, 1789.

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• To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

  Marilyn French

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

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• It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sarcastic, Lying, Able

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.34, Penguin

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• I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Strong Women, Voice

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• No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

  Dick Gregory

  Taken, Home, Kids

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Way, Irritated, Enough

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Eye, Profound, Saint

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• God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, People, Promise

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• I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Clouds, Soul

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