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“Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.”

Men Years Long White Higher Benefits Currents Checks Receiving Expectancy Latina Life Expectancy

Author:Grace Napolitano

“The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.”

Men Self Religion Sacrifice Higher Claims Vessel Dharma Recompense

Book:Sadhana

Source: Sadhana

“Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.”

Ifs Men Life Has Beens States Science Pay Higher Finals Seeds Profession Chosen Dull Priests Tribute Revision History Of Life

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.”

“Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.”

Men Higher Flow Cease

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.”

Men Art Higher Ordinary Art Is

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.”

Men Lost Higher Golden Purity Bent Vessel

Author:Jean Paul

“How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?”

Source: The origin of species (low cost). Limited edition

“You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”

Knows Men Trying Has Beens Higher Bigger Newspapers Noise Command Salary Alphas Omaha

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays