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"If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated" »Henry David Thoreau
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"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe
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"The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions." »Christopher Dawson
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"Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated." »Søren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848
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"The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy." »Johnson
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"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world." »Sir Karl Popper
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"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations." »John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x
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