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“The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.”

Stills Powerful Higher Tools Logic Remains Technique Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Dimensions Most Powerful Ontology

Author:Thomas Banchoff

“I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.”

Believe Littles Stills I Believe Religious Type Higher My Family Scared I Believe In Believe In God Skeptical Higher Power I Believe In God Family Apart

Author:Ja Rule

“Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself. Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort”

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“Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.”

Doe Stills Government Jobs Grows Higher Taxes Prosperity

Author:Bobby Jindal

“As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth of which is emphasized by every advance in science, that 'Great are the Works of the Lord'.”

Stills Feelings Goal Interest Lord Atheism Fronts Higher Distance Conquer Regions Yield Horizon Towers Prospects Advances In Science

Author:Joseph John Thomson

“To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.”

Thinking Needs Stills States Moments Consciousness Higher Subtlety States Of Consciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.”

Men Stills Spirit Higher Standards Ideals Raises Come Up Immortal Modest Wisest Greatest Man

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“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

“The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere.”

Stills Helping Home Order Prayer United Sun Greater Journey Divine Higher Charity Saint Atmosphere Heavenly Filling Brightness Divine Order Heavenly Home

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.”

Knows Men Inspirational Doe Stills Path Higher

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).”

Men Stills Important Felt Powerful Virtue Rich Example Masters Higher Shining Noble Visible Superiority Be A Man Commanders Nuance Iranian Corresponding

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.”

Stills Different Light Numbers Higher Red Blue Scales Plates Frequency Getting High Ultraviolet

Book:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.”

Source: Thoughts on art and life

“The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.”

People Stills Self Helping Spirit Class Virtue Self Help Higher Healthy Standards Raises Pulling Advancing

Author:Samuel Smiles

“If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.”

Source: Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers

“Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.”

Men Giving May Stills Facts Feelings Destiny Pride Evolution Higher Scales Summit Risen Exertion Origin Of Man

Book:The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

Source: The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

“Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters ... Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics.”

Stills Country Force Powerful Race Higher Vote African American Candidates Voters Asian Latino Threshold Vote For Me

Author:Barack Obama

“India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.”

People Humans Stills Self Light Age Lasts Form Creative Source Higher India West Ancient Supreme Awake Repeats Cycles Doomed Lifting Dharma Success And Failure Pupils Recovering Docile Shakti

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.”

Littles Stills States Reason Spiritual Order Interest Balance Higher Importance Preparation Revelations

Author:James F. Cooper