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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Humanity, Living, Until

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

Order, Sheep, Oneself

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

Good, Evil, Prove

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

Women, Men, Courage

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain

Hair, Social, Grade

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie

Life, Confidence, Easy

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

True, Self, Thine

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Both, Values, Soon

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya

Happiness, Give, Friends

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William Shakespeare

Stars, Conditions, Govern

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
William Shakespeare

Might, Gods, Dwells

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
Saint Patrick

Before, Within, Behind

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Simply, Aim

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Albert Camus

Far, Accept, Himself

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco

Work, Art, Mind

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Good, Yourself

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur

Peace, War, Others

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle

Truth, Friends, Honor

I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.
Michael Jordan

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Power, Live

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

Government, Democracy, Special

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Between, Cause, Weakness

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try, Sense, Another

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Food, Song, Cheer

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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

Law, Two, Moral

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
Kelly Clarkson

Love, Family, Good

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.
Barack Obama

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

Writing, May, Enough

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