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“People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.”

People Ifs Soul Enough Values Mistake Moral Serious Higher Perception Ordinary Dignity Technique Idiot Sensitive Bitterness Scream Ordinary People

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).”

Ifs Thinking Should Stills Values Term Views Amount Higher Paid Investing Seeking Sufficient Justify Illegal Immoral Speculation Redundant Fattening

Author:Warren Buffett

“I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.”

Ifs World Feels Looks Persons Hard Enough Next This World Higher Standing Including Bells Towers Bumps Disappointing Right Person

Book:All the Bright Places

Source: All the Bright Places

“The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.”

Students Higher Cost Stress Pressure Rising Loan Higher Education Student Loan

Author:Hank Johnson

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.”

Knows Jobs Company Higher Taxes Built Frustration Small Business

Author:Rick Scott

“It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.”

Education Honest Higher Lawyer Professors Percentages Competent Plumber

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.”

People Wells Nations Share Higher Taxes Approach Earning Reducing

Author:William Hague

“Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and I don't think God really would be all that interested. I'm sure when Bach wrote for the greater glory of God, he really didn't think that God was going to sit down at breakfast and listen to his cantatas. I think he meant for higher purposes than earning a living.”

People Thinking Believe I Can Would Be Purpose Greater Higher Music Is Glory Breakfast Believe In God Earning Glory Of God Higher Purpose Earning A Living

Author:Richard Meale

“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”

Levels Practice Higher Ideals Dare Defined Capability Affirmation Higher Level Negation Positive Affirmations

Author:Alexander Haig

“I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves.”

People Want Kind Ideas Self Sometimes Problem Pain Faces Higher Blessing Overcoming Adversity Obstacles Disguise Soar Neurosis Higher Self Blessings In Disguise Facing Adversity

Author:Tony Shalhoub

“I've never been struck by lightning as far as I know, so the Higher Power is treating me as well as even those people who love him very much.”

People Knows Wells Higher Lightning Higher Power

Author:Dave Barry

“Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars.”

Needs School College Broken Higher Cost Dollars Accountability Education System Higher Education

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“I love the fact that Oprah Winfrey comes out number one [most admired women], regardless of who you are, because she has achieved so much in the business world. I think Republicans, for example, when Republican women rate her higher than Hillary Clinton, they obviously don't care that she supported Barack Obama.”

Thinking World Facts Care Numbers Example Higher Republican Who You Are Clinton Rate Don't Care Barack Business World

Author:Michel Martin

“A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.”

Values Higher Criticism Scientist Height

Author:Francis Crick

“If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.”

Ifs Years States Chance United United States Higher Degrees Lows Income Jail Low Income

Author:Bill Gates

“The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]”

Shows Higher Tails Apes

Author:George Herbert

“Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.”

Mean Success Spirit Tree Sky Higher

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.”

“Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.”

People Mean Risk College Higher Economics Professors Aversion

Author:Michael Arrington

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

Higher Standards Claims Journalist Transparency Disclosure Higher Standards

Author:Michael Arrington

“Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.”

Country Higher Cost Mass Increase Embrace University Relative Elites Maintaining Higher Education

Author:Derek Bok

“Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.”

Growth Attention Economic Higher Politician Paid University Economist Economic Growth Higher Education

Author:Derek Bok

“Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.”

Youth Higher Encouragement Critical Collectives Higher Education

Author:Charles Rangel

“Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.”

Writing May Enough Jobs Political Values Modern Higher Machines Myth Medical Eras Software Accountants Replacements Technicians Modern Era

Author:Bill Gross

“It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.”

Mean Reason Higher Productivity Loyalty Wages Profitable Morale Profitable Business

Author:Thomas Perez

“Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.”

People Helping Opportunity Strong Community Class Middle College Higher Secure Middle Class Ladders Higher Education Community College

Author:Thomas Perez

“Im at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.”

Littles Water Risk Type Higher Drinking Grandmother My Grandmother Diabetes Coconuts Type 2 Diabetes

Author:Anne Wojcicki

“Given all the money printing that is going on globally - and not just in the US - and given that the total credit as a percent of the advanced economies is now 30% higher than in 2007 before the crisis hit, I think that gold is a good insurance.”

Thinking Given Economy Higher Percent Gold Crisis Credit Printing

Author:Marc Faber

“A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?”

Destiny Wife Higher Fashionable Heartless

Author:Jane Welsh Carlyle

“Working in a salon, you look at trends all day long. You're looking at color all the time, what new products are coming out. You're a part of the fashion industry, especially if you're working in a higher-end salon.”

Ifs Looks Long Ends Fashion Color Products Industry Higher Trends Coming Out Fashion Industry New Products Salons

Author:Christian Siriano

“The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.”

Made Difficult Numbers Quality Higher Shapes Elements Notes Size Tone Fewer Inches Strokes

Author:Norman McLaren

“A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.”

Knows Feels Desire Ignorance Higher Curiosity Ignorant Pursue Burning Vow Solemn

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.”

People Mind Firsts Heart Art Kids School Three Higher Grades Division Heart And Mind Backbenchers

Author:Shiv Khera

“In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.”

World Years Higher Shots Institutions Delivering Higher Education

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.”

Writing Character Higher Isolation Scare Stakes

Author:Conor McPherson

“The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.”

People Giving Ends Attention Higher Involved Cost Deserve Bases Back And Forth Switching

Author:Gary W. Keller

“Testosterone is a sex hormone, and I think it is the most social of hormones. The major social effect of testosterone is to orient us toward issues of sex and power. By the end of puberty testosterone levels in males are 8 to 10 times higher than in females, but decrease with age.”

Thinking Ends Age Social Sex Levels Issues Effects Higher Majors Female Males Decrease Hormones Puberty Testosterone

Author:James McBride

“If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.”

Ifs Way Humans Use Process Study Higher Aging Speed Controlled Organisms Worms Aging Process

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one”

Principles Higher Office Organization Hierarchy Supervision

Author:Max Weber

“In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics. Where the Second Law expressed an irreversible progression toward increased entropy and disorder, life evolves continually higher levels of order. The still more remarkable fact is that this evolutionary drive to greater and greater order also is irreversible. Evolution does not go backward.”

“You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.”

Way Higher Protect Free Will Benevolent Protect You Higher Power

Book:Rama Revealed

Source: Rama Revealed

“As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.”

Men Mind Wells Matter Results Effort Wind Development Genius Higher Thousand Labor Gold Eternity Stronger Faculty Commerce Currency Folds

Author:Edward Miner Gallaudet

“JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.”

Problem Mistake Support Economy Higher Tough Committees Compensation Oversight Liquidity

Author:Jamie Dimon

“The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.”

Giving Has Beens America Liberty Millions Doors Higher Ideals Twenties Seven Opening Gates Lifting Lifting Up

Author:Olympia Brown

“Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.”

“Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.”

Soul Ends Feelings Might Spirit Difficult Consciousness Higher Pure Ego Conscious Function Infinite Structure Senses Preserves Sublime Reducing Abolish Immediacy

Author:Kenny Smith

“The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”

Knows Men Higher Bigger Noise Command Salary

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.”

People Thinking Firsts Levels Fans Changed Higher Band Higher Level Metallica

Author:Kirk Hammett

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