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“You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.”

Wells May Action Opinion Failing Conversation Shining Appreciation Superiors Inferiors

Author:Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

Mind May States Order Revolution Equal Superiors State Of Mind Inferiors Rebellious Revolt

Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.”

People Ifs Men May Art Talent Creatures Travel Remains Deny Superiors Miserable Mediocre Art And Science

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.”

Men Way May Philosophy Animal Produce Species Superiors Bees Cocoons Hives

Author:Hippolyte Taine

“The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.”

Way Wells May Creation Skills Evidence Areas Focused Superiors Concentration Brilliance Overlooked

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.”

Way May Courses Term Garden Superiors Gardening Tricky Admiring

Author:Simon Blackburn

“You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.”

Feels Believe May Long Running Belief Quality Picks Superiors Someday Lasting Trends Long Runs

Author:Will Barnet

“True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.”

Life May Sports Challenges Hero Shapes Superiors Combat Heroic Heroism Being A Hero True Hero

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?”

“Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.”

May Children Ideas Interest Superiors Vested Interests

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.”

“It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.”

May Language Superiors Polished Clearness

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful