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“I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.”

“There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.”

Moments Joy Dies Known Highest Enjoyment Insects Splendid Fertilization

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

“I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.”

Ifs Knows Moments President Levels Highest Barack Usa Approved President Barack Obama High Level Abu Ghraib

Author:Peter King

“If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!”

Ifs Knows Stills Mother Mines Mom Highest Motherhood Hills Mothers Day Follow Me Mother Love Mother's Love Mother Day Poems Motherhood And Love

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.”

Soul Spiritual Death Values Force Creativity Creative Study Highest Life And Death Value Of Life Love And Death Spiritual Values Spiritual Death

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.”

People Needs Fall Comedy Four Week Drink Highest Wine University Bones Beer Elderly Falling Down Density Nebraska

Author:Jay Leno

“The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.”

Country Crime Grew Grew Up Highest Rate London Crime Rates

Author:Leona Lewis

“I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.”

People Knows Ideas Self Order Stupid Highest Opposites No Idea Meals Characteristics Deficiency Incompetent Fries

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

Persons Art Artist Religion Religious Highest Art Is Architecture Great Artist

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.”

Mistake Study Degrees Highest Errors Introduction

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.”

Used Feet Six Highest Shoes Dancer Ballet Inches Heels Ballet Shoes

Author:Christian Louboutin

“He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.”

Thinking Literature Progress Security Lessons Authority Highest

Book:Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels

Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels

“Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.”

People Way Country Action Cities Highest Mass Intellectual Conscious Storm Maturity Idealism Port Idealism And Realism City And Country

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.”

Mind Order Study Genius Highest Capacity Female Doubted Erudition Female Mind

Book:1816-1828

Source: 1816-1828

“The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.”

Men World Heart Beautiful Literature Relationship Arms Husband Highest Available Prize Loyal Beautiful Women Boyfriend Most Beautiful Woman In The World Consolation Prize

Book:Marilyn: A Biography

Source: Marilyn: A Biography

“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”

Inspirational Motivational Purpose Grows Effort Courage Cry Mountain Highest Mercy Sand Grain Strain Shrinks Don't Give Up Grains Of Sand

Book:Og Mandino

Source: Og Mandino

“The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.”

World Wells Art Shows Might Artist Drama Fame Highest Dignity Wide Envy Grades Phases Gifted Monkeys Show Business Exhibitions

Author:P. T. Barnum

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”

Inspirational Humanity Black Freedom Inspiring Pay Highest Fellows Tolerance African American Recognizing Black History Tribute Black History Month Black History Month Inspirational Black History Inspirational

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.”

People Needs America Party Republican Highest Claims Paid Democratic Corporate Republican Party Corporate America

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.”

“It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.”

Seems Together Creativity Creative Highest Perfection Critical Judgement Tension Faculty Be Creative

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.”

Years Country Next Numbers Risk Students Highest Evidence Increase Starting Financial Interviews Britain Routes Programmes Visa

Author:Theresa May

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.”

Love Country Enough Policy Acceptance Higher Highest Blind Officials Patriotism Nationalism Memorial Day Plain And Simple Good Patriotic Unconditional Acceptance True Patriotism Remember Memorial Day Blind Acceptance

Author:George McGovern

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”

“Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.”

Kind Form Proud Highest Individuality Being Yourself Individualism Imitation Be Proud Flattery Promoting

Author:Brian Molko

“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.”

Humans War Fighting Energy Military Highest Tension Antiwar Stamps Nobility Stamp Collecting

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.”

President Powerful Principles Virtue Successful Listening Succeed Skills Office Highest Weakness Standing Opposites Campaigns Circles Compromise Combination Opponents

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.”

Left Felt Highest Regard Crafts Oxford

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.”

Religious Wife Depends Highest Performances Oneself Dues Faithful Bliss Heavenly Ancestor Offspring Rite Conjugal Faithful Service

Author:Guru Nanak

“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.”

Materials Type Highest Advantage Efficient Efficiency Fuel Efficiency

Book:Speeches

Source: Speeches

“Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.”

Ifs Religious Pleasure Virtue Highest Gains Rewards Sake Selfish Truest

Author:John Henry Newman

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”

“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

“But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.”

Way Want Feels I Can Film Given Quality Responsibility Cases Technology Audience Highest Absolutes Shooting Budgets Filmmaker

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.”

Men Facts Christian Literature Christianity Democracy Rights Highest Roots

Author:Novalis

“Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.”

America Worst Crime Citizens Highest Gun Rate Violent Gun Control Lowest Violent Crimes Crime Rates Gun Safety Armed Citizens

Author:Ted Nugent

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”

“And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.”

Way Believe Self Problem Order I Believe Can Do Issues Highest Solve Tall

Author:Glenn Beck

“Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.”

“Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.”

War Action Succeed Degrees Highest Police Extraordinary International Terror Planning Cooperation Stakes Enforcement War On Terror International Cooperation

Author:Barack Obama

“If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.”

Ifs Highest Criticize

Author:Joel Osteen

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”

Knows World Firsts Country Science Humanity Nations Knowledge Hard Work Highest Accounts Intelligent Carrie Torches Personification

Author:Louis Pasteur

“The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.”

Important Individual Rights Violence Elements Highest Historical Libertarian Esteem Rejection Free Society Individual Liberty Individual Rights Initiation

Book:Freedom Under Siege

Source: Freedom Under Siege

“Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.”

Responsibility Highest Voting Sacraments Civics

Book:Campaign Boot Camp 2.0: Basic Training for Candidates, Staffers, Volunteers, and Nonprofits

Source: Campaign Boot Camp 2.0: Basic Training for Candidates, Staffers, Volunteers, and Nonprofits

“You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.”

Nations Class Highest Backgrounds Defined Height Climbs Exceptional

Author:Rick Perry

“Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.”

Thinking Men Want Art Reason Reality Given Answers Highest Art Is Built Elementals

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”

Men Mind Religious Highest Capitalism Function Reasoning Wheels Attributes Smallest Abstraction Skyscraper Fountainhead

Author:Ayn Rand

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