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The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
Pope Benedict XVI

Work, Fact, Means

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
Dita Von Teese

Age, History, Political

You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
Patrick Wilson

School, Down, High

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell

Travel, Country, Thoughts

I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell

Country, Thoughts, Catch

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
Michael Gove

Life, Leadership, Good

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Victoria Woodhull

Place, Face, Decency

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.
Rosie O'Donnell

Peace, War, Rise

Adoration is caring for God above all else.
Evelyn Underhill

God, Else, Caring

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.
George Weinberg

Men, Everything, Said

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.
Jessica Hahn

God, Nothing, Law

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
Felix Baumgartner

Seems, Fascinated

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Great, God, Mind

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
Edward Sapir

Sense, Social, Language

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
Joseph Ratzinger

Work, Fact, Means

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
Paul Harris

Age, Others, Another

So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!
Vladimir Kramnik

Simple, Important, Him

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.
Robert Ballard

History, Live, Living

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
Catherine Helen Spence

History, Nothing, Young

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
Jerry Bruckheimer

Crisis, Whether, Rise

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
Rachel Maddow

Beautiful, Private, Defense

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Roman Jakobson

Light, Between, Speech

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
Fay Wray

True, Justice, May

Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.
Fay Wray

Time, After, Picture

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
Fay Wray

Clothes, Shots, Pulling

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
Joseph Rotblat

War, Mind, Thinking

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Brian Mulroney

Politics, Enemy, Two

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.
Chris Matthews

God, Mean, Together

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
Carroll Quigley

Influence, Africa, Italy

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.
Charles Sturt

Rock, Hard, Large

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