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“The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.”

Men Self Religion Sacrifice Higher Claims Vessel Dharma Recompense

Book:Sadhana

Source: Sadhana

“There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.”

Source Higher Integrity Protect Claims Jail Journalistic

Author:Thomas Frank

“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."”

Different Form Science Used Term Challenges Levels Existence Study Higher Degrees Standards Claims Patterns Complexity Geometry Exhibits Different Levels Fragmented Euclid Morphology

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.”

Source: Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]

“It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.”

World States Interest Higher Claims Socialism Socialist Defenders National Interests Fatherland

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.”

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“I really think my fun personality is my ace in the hole. I will never claim to be the most beautiful or most talented queen, because I can think of many queens who fit that description. However, it's my "charisma" that takes me to a higher level in my drag!”

Thinking I Can Beautiful Fun Levels Personality Higher Fit Claims Holes Queens Description Take Me Drag Because I Can Charisma Higher Level Aces

Author:Manila Luzon

“Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.”

Life Looks Mean Seems Certain Secret Higher Claims Cherish Satisfying Nurse Vulgar Commonplace

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.”

Self Common Courage Risk Danger Higher Highest Claims Worthy Resistance Aggression Limbs Invasion Defence Maintenance Repelling

Book:The Study of Sociology

Source: The Study of Sociology

“We somehow believe that our point of view is superior, higher than those of the greatest minds either because our point of view is that of our time, and our time, being later than the time of the greatest minds, can be presumed to be superior to their times; or else because we believe that each the greatest minds was right from his point of view, but not, as he claims, simply right.”

Mind Believe Views Higher Claims Point Of View Superiors Our Time

Book:Liberalism Ancient and Modern

Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern

“Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.”

“I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.”

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Author:Michael Arrington

“It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.”

“The moment that the state came into conflict with the higher power, the moment that it set itself up as an end in itself, it became identified with Augustine's earthly city and lost all claims to a higher sanction than the law of force and self-interest. Without justice, what is a great kingdom but a great robbery, magnum latrocinium?”

Source: The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity

“Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.”

Thinking Real Facts Use Names Individual Speak Social Community Decision Cold Higher Claims Selfish Decision Making Collectivism Guise

Author:Doug Bandow

“It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.”

Should States Government Able Used Pay One Thing Higher Taxes Essentials Weapons Claims Rate Burden Shoulders Income Code Wealthy Blasphemy Arbiter Government Service

Author:David Limbaugh

“Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.”

Shows Theory Higher Circumstances Claims Probability

Author:Elliott Sober

“The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.”

God Earth Religious Lord Rights Source Kings Higher Essentials Bible Claims Founders Our Founding Fathers Us History Us Founding Fathers Founding Fathers Of America Founding America Christian Heritage

Book:The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: The speech of John Dickinson ... May 24th, 1764 ... praying the king for a change of the government of the province. 1764

Source: The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: The speech of John Dickinson ... May 24th, 1764 ... praying the king for a change of the government of the province. 1764

“Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives.”

Giving Humans Earth Law Born Liberty Lord Taken Our Lives Rights Source Kings Higher Essentials Claims Civil Rights Providence Parliament Seals Decree Human Power

Book:The Writings of John Dickinson

Source: The Writings of John Dickinson

“I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.”

Spiritual Consciousness Higher Claims Including Awakening Oneness Planes Unconditional Love Unconditional Higher Consciousness Birthright

Author:Ken Keyes Jr.