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• It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.

  David Sarnoff

  Drama, Artist, Television

  David Sarnoff (1948). “Pioneering in television, prophecy and fulfillment: excerpts from speeches and statements”

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• Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Business, Educational

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.51, Revell

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• The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Children

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• I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.

  Ron Darling

  Children, Thinking, Careers

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• There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family

  Peter Steele

  Fighting, Talking, Drug

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• You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.

  Joseph Murphy

  Dream, Inspiration, Sunshine

  Joseph Murphy (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.184, Penguin

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• Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?

  Dan Gable

  Perseverance, People, Giving

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• Let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Jobs, Hands, Names

  Terry McAuliffe (2007). “What A Party!: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

  Paula Scher

  Expectations, Design, Use

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• Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Clever, May

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• Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.

  Cyrus the Great

  Moving, Talking, Leader

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• An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  People, Earth, Landscape

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• Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain amount of power for good or harm. Every woman, by her virtue or her vice, by her folly or her wisdom, by her levity or her dignity, is adding something to our national elevation or degradation. A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise that community from its ruins and restore it again to prosperity and joy.

  John Angell James

  Heart, Character, Rich Or Poor

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• God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

  William Romaine

  Men, Century, Raise Up

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• I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

  Don McPherson

  Boys, Men, Realizing

  Interview with Jeff Pearlman, www.jeffpearlman.com. April 21, 2011.

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• That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

  Thomas Carper

  Enzymes, Workplace, Plant

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• Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.

  David Neeleman

  Hurt, Fuel Prices, Cost

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". SFGate Interview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Blow, Mind, Four

  "A Hereditary Book on the Art of War". Book by Yagyu Munenori, 1632.

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• Luxury, by definition, means something that appears to be the best of whatever it represents. It's a word that raises people's expectations, whether talking about clothing for women or locations for people to live You pay for recognition, but probably the most important thing it represents is delivery on the promise of the brand's name.

  Isadore Sharp

  Mean, Talking, Names

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• Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid

  Cheng Man-ch'ing

  Sick, Weak, Tai Chi

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• Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

  Tony Clark

  Achievement, Littles, Limits

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• Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

  Kelly LeBrock

  Parenting, Healthy, Parenthood

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• We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Light, Bridges

  Max Frisch (2006). “Homo Faber”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

  Patricia Ireland

  Phones, Doors, People

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• My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

  Marcel Carne

  Sister, Father, Order

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