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• The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Nature, Significant

  Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Allen Fender (2008). “Walden”, p.289, Oxford University Press

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• The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

  Albert Einstein

  Goal, Embrace, Hypothesis

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• Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred.

  Claude Gueant

  Hatred, Liberty, Fraternity

  "French minister touts superiority". www.taipeitimes.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.

  Serge Gainsbourg

  Funny, Lasts, Ugliness

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• It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

  Wallace Shawn

  Problem, Characteristics, Feels

  Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.22, Haymarket Books

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• I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

  Shelby Foote

  Historical, Way, Modern

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• And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.

  Max Ernst

  Bird, Flesh, Transformed

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• Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Song, Inspiration, Ambition

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• Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Animal, Be Kind, Please

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Apr 30, 2015

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• If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI.

  Stephen Hawking

  Civilization, Light, Messages

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• I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

  Emmitt Smith

  Games, People, Different

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• I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.' I do believe that. Not superior to all other people, but to some, most probably including those who think Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is a great film. That is not simply ego on my part. It is a faith that after writing and teaching about films for more than 40 years, my tastes are more evolved than those of a fanboy.

  Roger Ebert

  Revenge, Believe, Teaching

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• I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, America, Australia

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• We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Motherhood, Men, Careers

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• By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

  Dana Milbank

  Gun, Law, Doubt

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• No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wise, Spiritual, Missing

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• If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

  Armond White

  Afterlife, Marketing, Nihilism

  "Armond White trollin': Calls Res Evil 'superior to Inception on every level.'" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 16, 2010.

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• One of the hardest things to live with in any relationship is criticism, real or implied. Criticism is a form of humor for them, and they enjoy feeling superior when they see someone else's discomfort.

  Robert E. Wells

  Real, Feelings, Criticism

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• A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Believe, Discipline

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

  Plotinus

  Faith, Wisdom, Infinite

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• By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

  Georg Simmel

  Average, Personality, Mysterious

  Georg Simmel, Otthein Rammstedt (2008). “Gesamtausgabe”

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• War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Blessing

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.236, Algora Publishing

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• The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

  Confucius

  Wise, Character, Men

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• I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

  Benjamin Graham

  Opportunity, Order, Technique

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