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"Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing" »Paul O'Neill
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"The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others." »Hazlitt
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"high fashion has the shelf life of potato salad." »Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)
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"high living and high thinking are poles apart." »B. J. Gupta
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"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life." »Booker T. Washington
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"For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be." »Pink Floyd
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"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man." »A. Bronson Alcott
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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success." »T. T. Munger
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"high thoughts must have high language." »Aristophanes
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"I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie." »Walker Best
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"No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth." »Goethe
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"The best strategy to making money in the stock market is to buy an asset before it becomes too popular. You buy low and sell high, you do not buy high and hope you will sell higher. This is not an investment strategy it is speculation." »Med Jones
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"In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest." »Martin Luther
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"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." »Ann Landers
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"He is not dead who departs this life with high fame; dead is he, though living, whose brow is branded with infamy." »Tieck
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"He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy." »Tieck
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"Commodities have shown a high correlation to inflation, especially in high inflation periods. In addition to diversification, the commodities asset class may also protect investment portfolios against an expected inflation or a declining local currency." »Med Jones
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"high office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson
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"Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future --you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college." »John Green
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"Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself." »Shannon Miller
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"Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege." »Herbert Hoover
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"Although the protesters in Egypt and neighboring countries are calling for democratic reforms, in reality they are calling for better economic life. Democracy is only a means to an end. I believe the driving forces behind the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings are economical. A chronic high unemployment combined with an inflation in food prices is a volatile mix that can lead to major civic outbursts." »Med Jones
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"life lives, life dies. life laughs, life cries. life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes." »Unknown
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"In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high." »Henry David Thoreau
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"high expectations are the key to everything." »Sam Walton
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"There's a high pop-up behind second. Richardson has got it and he's under it." »Jerry Coleman
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