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highest ourselves possible preparing risk worse
Giuseppe Pisanu We are considering the highest possible risk of an attack, ... and we are preparing ourselves for the worse possible threat.
highest lowest conditions
Publilius Syrus The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
highest pressure sell
David Keuhl There's a lot of pressure for farmers. You want to retire, so you sell off the land, and the highest bidders are developers.
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Amber Pruitt At four, you have to play the highest low seed, which is usually the sleeper team. The third seed to me is much better. You actually get the lowest seed.
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Tom Brokaw Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.
highest payment stocks
Anders Igel Our dividend payment makes us one of the highest yielding stocks in the industry.
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Mo Ibrahim Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.
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Fadel Gheit Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
historians human prefer
Niall Ferguson The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.
ignorance reason-why consciousness
Richard Hooker The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance
ignorance atheism patterns
Richard Rohr Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
ignorance knowledge science
Richard Dawkins It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
ignorance might bliss
Robyn Carr Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.
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Robert Silverberg Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.
ignorance thinking circles
Samuel Johnson Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness.
ignorance guilty crime
Samuel Johnson He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
ignorance grieving knowing
Samuel Johnson Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.
ignorance men race
Samuel Johnson There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
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Jonathan Swift Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
perfection sake scorn travel
Richard Bach The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.
perfection soul embodiment
Hazrat Inayat Khan Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.
perfection mediocrity pursuit
Henry Fuseli Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
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Luc de Clapiers It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
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Lord Chesterfield Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
perfection joy
Lupita Nyong'o Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.
perfection promise progress
Epictetus If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
perfection shining done
Emily Carr Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.