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“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.”

“I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.”

Want Mean Christian Perfect Principles Highest Jew Jewish Friends

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.”

Firsts Home Mother Wall Highest Missions God First Put God First

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”

Ifs Inspirational States Care Pleasure Marriage Highest Mutual Participation Dividing

Book:Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

“Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.”

Real States Spiritual Sex Understanding Pleasure Eating Highest Oneness Sensual Vibrations Eating Food Sensual Pleasure

Author:Terry Riley

“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.”

People Two Friendship Marriage Relationship Solitude Protect Highest Tasks Ties

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.”

Love Love Is Highest Unique Function Loved Ones Unique Love

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.”

People Felt Crime Return Kings Taxes Highest Army Criminals Guilty Royal Accounting Propriety Prerogative Disloyalty

Author:John Buchanan Robinson

“I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.”

Thinking Art Levels Creativity Source Highest Enjoyment

Author:David Rockefeller

“Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.”

Men Feels Firsts Government Nations Religious Liberty Design Authority Highest Conscience Constitution Upset Trusted Religious Liberty

Author:Mitt Romney

“When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.”

Jobs President My Own Worry Economy Highest Priorities Saving

Author:Mitt Romney

“Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.”

Men House Born Rich Highest Built Died Bin Laden Rich Man Filthy Specifications Filthy Rich

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.”

Men Spirit Found Highest Mathematics Excellence Delight Math And Science Exaltation Touchstones Mathematics And Science Mathematical Beauty

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.”

Two Social Born Church Race Study Century Discipline Authority Highest Enlightenment Europe Posts 19th Century Anti Semitism Darwinism Social Darwinism

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.”

Humans States Language Moral Roles Taken Rights Authority Highest Human Rights Casts Jew Holocaust Assault Judaism Hiroshima Pristine Moral Authority Jewish Life

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.”

Men Humans Stills Together Voice Century Communication Highest Aim Accomplishment Mail Transport Human Voice

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.”

Stills Inspiration Practice Six Highest Intellectual Training Yoga Philosophical Fruit Delight Scholar Marvellous Brahma

Author:Annie Besant

“Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.”

World Moral Teaching Students Morality Highest Garden Code Gathering Embodiment

Author:Annie Besant

“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”

Form Fame Highest Reputation Vanity

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.”

Should Practice Teaching Worst Highest Lowest

Author:Annie Besant

“Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.”

Humans Character Sex Highest Capable Endeavor Fertilization

Book:Essays in Aesthetics

Source: Essays in Aesthetics

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”

Shows Pain Suffering Growth Degrees Highest Capacity Intelligent Supreme Pessimism World Suffering

Book:The Wisdom of Life

Source: The Wisdom of Life

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”

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Book:Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

Source: Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

“Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.”

Firsts Government Duty Highest Safety Obligation Public Safety

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.”

People Feels Country Film Felt Careers Gone Honor Highest Serving Public Service Bodybuilding

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.”

Earth Spirit Eternal Highest Proof

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.”

Life Life Is Highest Court Appeals Reverence Reverence For Life

Book:Civilization and Ethics

Source: Civilization and Ethics

“Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.”

People Country Law Cases Crime Highest Gun Rate Crime Rates Gun Law

Author:Luke Scott

“But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.”

Needs Should Doe America Next Asks President Levels Leader Inspire Highest Aspiration Visionaries Visionary Leaders

Author:Tim Scott

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”

Men Inspirational Long Growth Wise Achievement Highest Climbs Summit

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.”

Men Believe Spiritual I Believe Emotion Written Highest Dance Communicate Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Ted Shawn

“The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.”

Humans Character Literature Highest Entertainment Analysis

Book:Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer

Source: Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.”

Should Artist Masters Highest Raised Surface Crafts Sensations Possessed Transmit Loveliness Beholder

Author:Alfred Sisley

“The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.”

Giving Self Helping Kindness Duty Highest Neighbor Helping Others Public Service

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

Littles States Courses Easy Peace Natural Justice Taxes Degrees Highest Investing Libertarian Administration Lowest Barbarism Tolerable Opulence Administration Of Justice

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.”

Ifs Should Government Example Office Highest Setting Settings Transparency Scrutiny Nsa

Author:Edward Snowden

“I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.”

Kind Real Feelings Spiritual Spirituality Highest Atheist Height Take Me Void

Author:Jack Black

“Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.”

Humans Art Spirit Music Fine Highest Ministers Human Spirit Fine Arts

Author:Herbert Spencer

“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.”

Thinking Humans Government Form Nature Existence Human Nature Type Republican Highest Republic Forms Of Government

Author:Herbert Spencer

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

Inspirational Humans Understanding Human Beings Education Human Nature Activity Highest

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.”

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Book:How to Listen to God

Source: How to Listen to God

“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.”

Has Beens Highest Republic Lad Syntax

Author:John Steinbeck

“We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.”

Light Imagination Dark Highest Candle Candle Lights

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.”

Sports Hell Offers Highest Devil Rewards Servant

Book:Billy Sunday speaks

Source: Billy Sunday speaks

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

Life Inspirational Giving Doe Peace Existence Education Our Lives Information Highest Harmony Life Lesson Peace And Harmony Peace Harmony

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?”

Ifs Want Wells Looks Play Dream America Winning Levels Highest Fairs Threat Financial Stupidity Loser American Dream Assault Incentives Incompetence Meanness

Author:Matt Taibbi

“The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.”

Class Plans Lessons Highest Management Succession

Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal

“My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.”

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Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal