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• American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

  Jim Ramstad

  Home, Pockets, Care

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• The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone else has done all the achieving that is needed and to live in relationship with that person, whether we achieve or not. If that doesn't seem like much to you, you're right: it isn't. And, as a matter of fact, the life of grace is even less than that. It's not even our life at all, but the life of that Someone Else rising like a tide in the ruins of our death.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Believe, Goal, Effort

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• What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Eye, Son

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.” “Don’t make me angry-kiss you.” “Give me the laundry.” “Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Giving, Frustrated

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.” “How? If anyone even finds it—and it’s not just sitting under a table right now—they’ll just have a good laugh at our sappy talk. No one’s going to be like, ‘Aha! Proof of an illicit human-and-vampire affair.

  Richelle Mead

  Sick, Laughing, Feelings

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.197, Penguin

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• The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

  Thomas Adams

  Inspirational, Fall, Desire

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• So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.

  Charles Frazier

  Hate, Fire, Air

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• A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Lying, Past, Men

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Good Luck, Hard Work

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.23

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• If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Fall, Earth

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Hate, Ocean

  "The Quest for Peace and Justice". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1964.

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• O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move
  The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.

  Thomas Gray

  Love, Life, Moving

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.27

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• The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beautiful, Deep Love

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• Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
  Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
  To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
  Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

  George Croly

  Patience, Art, Prayer

  George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13

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• Heaven's help is better than early rising.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heaven, Helping

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.550, Wordsworth Editions

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• The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life. The moment sex energy starts rising upwards, the moment sex energy starts becoming love, prayer, meditation, then all lower manifestations disappear.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Prayer, Ambition

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• All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Challenges, Politics

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• Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Clever, Laziness

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• Service standards keep rising. As competitors render better and better service, customers become more demanding. Their expectations grow. When every company's service is shoddy, doing a few things well can earn you a reputation as the customer's savior. But when a competitor emerges from the pack as a service leader, you have to do a lot of things right. Suddenly achieving service leadership costs more and takes longer. It may even be impossible if the competition has too much of a head start. The longer you wait, the harder it is to produce outstanding service.

  Bill Davidow

  Educational, Expectations, Leader

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• In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.

  Ann Weems

  Death, Stars, Prayer

  Ann Weems (1999). “Psalms of Lament”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

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• How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Heart, House

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• Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.

  Don Aitkin

  Grandchildren, Direct Effect, Ice

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• It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.

  John Michael Greer

  Reality, Years, Class

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• Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun. See: the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth.

  Einar Skjaeraasen

  Dream, Winter, Winning

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• At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Mind, Daybreak

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