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“The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.”

Men World Giving Hands Spirit Can Do Perfect Emotion Divine Higher Instruments Profound Tone Serving Finest Evoke Exalted Humbling

Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

Men Self Natural Forget Higher Losing Commit Guidance Advancing Forget Him

Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

“In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.”

Mean Ends Use Dream Would Be Left Nations Vision Youth Higher One Day Mass Mere Chiefs Managers Indian American Dream Rhetoric Promoting Scholarship Higher Education Implicit Elitist

Author:William A. Henry III

“You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.”

Important Nations Higher Athlete Faster Just One Inches Olympics Competing Push Yourself Notches

Author:Ronald Reagan

“God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.”

People Love May Nations Views Known Higher Vary

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.”

“What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.”

“The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.”

Source: Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man

“What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.”

Different Seems Sound Levels Consciousness Quality Pieces Movement Higher Music Is Unique Unity Mythology Examination Occult Higher Level Baroque Baroque Music Vivaldi

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.”

World Humans Art Character Beautiful Remember Artist Perfect Failing Higher Pity Chiefs Lacking Great Art Great Artist Exuberance Scorned

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.”

World Done Bigs Stuff Term Loss Accepting Higher Demand Gains Strategy Distance Celebrate Hills Valleys Tolerate Short Term Crossings Halt Stagnation Big Stuff

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.”

Ifs Important Technology Higher Please Succeed Performances Plant Investing Come Up Chips Manufacturing Unimportant Processing

Author:Satoru Iwata

“There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how some necessary balance, between demand and supply, between exports and imports, or the like, will be brought about without deliberate control. The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Watches Balance Higher Safe Demand Authority Conservative Factors Inability Assured Deliberate Contributing Orderly Imports Reluctance

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Higher energy prices act like a tax.”

Energy Higher Taxes

Author:John W. Snow

“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

“Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.”

Ifs Needs Soul Higher Ambition Glory Careful Pursue My Soul Curb

Book:Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Source: Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

“Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”

Two Literature Change Levels Design Higher Higher Level

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I do, and I hunt. I like small horses best. They're like small men. They have more to prove so they take all the more risks and jump higher and faster than all the rest.”

Men Risk Higher Prove Horse Faster Hunts Small Man

Author:Sienna Guillory

“Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.”

Time Values Higher Good Life Time Management Insperational

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As for the flood carving Grand Canyon, why don't they explain to us why the top of the Canyon is 4,000ft higher than where the river (Colorado River) enters the canyon? Why don't they explain to us how rivers miraculously flowed up-hill for millions of years to finally cut the groove deep enough so they could flow downhill?”

Years Enough Millions Cutting Higher Flow Rivers Hills Flood Groove Canyons Colorado Grand Canyon Carving Colorado River

Author:Kent Hovind

“I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the courses I was assigned, and I began work on extensions to notation that might serve. In particular, I adopted the matrix algebra used in my thesis work, the systematic use of matrices and higher-dimensional arrays (almost) learned in a course in Tensor Analysis rashly taken in my third year at Queen's, and (eventually) the notion of Operators in the sense introduced by Heaviside in his treatment of Maxwell's equations.”

“Living in, and promoting a eugenic White society. This means that we take particular care in not only assuring the perpetuation of our precious White Race, but we take deliberate care that the misfits are culled and that each generation advances to higher and more salubrious levels, physically, aesthetically, and mentally.”

Mean Care White Levels Race Generations Particular Higher Deliberate Promoting Misfits White Race

Author:Ben Klassen

“If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.”

Ifs Way Trying Long Reason Use Given Behinds Talent Higher Higher Power If There Is A God

Author:Bert McCracken

“There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.”

“The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.”

Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

“Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.”

Should Trying Government Pay Serious Higher Currents Opposition Healthcare Cuban

Author:Saul Landau

“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”

Knows Sometimes Matter Joy Night Dark Views Morning Higher Mentor

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“At the local government level, policies must be championed to increase the number of instructional hours in our schools as well as make the process of admission easier in order to enroll and keep a higher number of students in class.”

Wells Government School Order Process Hours Levels Numbers Class Policy Students Higher Easier Increase Locals Admission Local Government

Author:Shaheen Mistri

“Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.”

Responsibility Higher Increase Harder Privilege Climbs Mediocre Underestimate Coldness

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“A congressman from Texas sent out a tweet comparing President Obama to Hitler. That is ridiculous because at this point in his career Hitler had a much higher approval rating.”

President Careers Higher Ridiculous Compare Texas President Obama Approval Tweet Rating Congressman Approval Rating

Author:Conan O'Brien

“During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'”

Said Important Nations President Higher Skills Majors Sells Addresses President Obama Higher Education Starbucks English Major

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.”

Thinking Way Enough Care Running Form Next Higher Capable Get Away Screws Hunts Deer

Author:Ted Nugent

“The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.”

Humans Character Strong Sex Loses Human Beings Development Ought Higher Males Individuality Individualism Traits Comrade

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.”

Destiny Higher Critical Nevertheless Attending

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“My morale has never been higher than since I stopped asking for grants to keep my lab going.”

Higher Asking Grants Labs Morale

Author:Robert Pollack

“My view is that an investor is better off knowing a lot about a few investments than knowing a little about each of a great many holdings. One's very best idea's are likely to generate higher returns for a given level of risk than one's hundredth or thousandth best idea.”

Littles Ideas Given Levels Views Knowing Risk Return Higher Investment Great Men Investors Better Off Holding On

Author:Seth Klarman

“What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.”

“...Dream big, reach further, climb higher.”

Dream Bigs Higher Climbs

Author:Angela Burt-Murray

“When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult to deal with, be neither attracted nor repulsed. Go a step higher.”

People Ifs Action Difficult Deals Steps Buddhism Higher Angry Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Go out into the world, do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but don't let people take advantage of you.”

People Thinking World Trying Kind Higher Advantage Be Kind Compassionate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to serve a function, but it has no intrinsic value in and of itself. It's comfort food and nostalgia at best. On this, we follow what you and your fellow readers do more than what you say. We hear complaints about renumbering every time we do it, but every time we do it it results in higher sales, which is the whole ballgame - so if it were your time and your effort, what would you do?”

“It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.”

Ifs Knows Want Believe Stills Running Easy Decision Common Education Know How Issues Higher Standards Core Texas Amendments Legislature Texan Higher Standards Common Core

Author:Rick Perry

“We have to make sure that college is accessible and affordable. Two years ago, I stood here and called upon our institutions of higher learning to develop plans for degrees that cost no more than $10,000. There were plenty of detractors at that time who insisted it couldn't be done. However, that call inspired educators at colleges and universities across our state to step up to the plate. Today, I'm proud to tell you that thirteen Texas universities have announced plans for a $10,000 degree.”

“I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.”

Art Form Love Is Land Higher Ideals Mediums Nobility Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.”

Ifs Want Helping Use Turns Special Higher Gains Merit Consideration Sincere Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.”

Feels Teacher Students Buddhism Type Higher Guilt Incapable Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.”

People World Want Feels Firsts Buddhism Higher Misery Sorry Enlightened Camps Boots Rama Boot Camp

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.”

Different Universe Levels Written Expression Higher Higher Level Samadhi True Wisdom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.”

Years Happens Would Be Able Three Winning Felt Sports Half Cases Higher Finals Finished Reaching Realising Three Years Juniors Australian

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“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.”