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“An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.”

Mind Reality Values Position Higher Gains Victim Deceiving

Author:John Galt

“He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.”

Fall Loss Position Higher Ambition Raises My Ambition Blinded

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.”

People Ifs Eye Levels Streets Figures Position Ought Higher Models Draws Drawing Portraits

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.”

Knows Trying May Stills Science Space Behinds Knowledge Fronts Position Higher Scales Wander Uncharted

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.”

Men Real Reason Stage Position Higher Quantity Thrones Simplest Summit Discontent Wisest Eminence

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.”

“He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.”

Social Lines Honest Position Higher Prestige Dealings

Book:The United States a Christian Nation

Source: The United States a Christian Nation

“People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.”

People Want Stills I Can Shows Asks Position Higher Taxes Conservative Heavy Budgets Balanced Grandchildren Balanced Budget Indebtedness

Author:Ben Stein

“An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.”

People World Poor Numbers Attention Rich Growing Position Higher Lucky Draws Noses Uncomfortable Arrogance Inhumanity Disparity Callousness Higher Ground Splashing

Author:Kalle Lasn

“I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.”

Ability Opinion Position Kings Higher Office

Author:Michele Bachmann

“My position is that the rate should align with the level of economic development. Because it is always about a balance, a balance of interests, and it should reflect this balance. A balance between those who sell something across the border and those who benefit from a low rate, as well as a balance between the interests of those who buy, who need the rate to be higher. A balance between national producers, for example, agricultural producers who are interested in it.”

Needs Should Wells Interest Levels Economic Example Position Development Balance Higher Benefits Lows Sells Rate Producers Borders Economic Development

Author:Vladimir Putin