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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina

Angry, May, Happen

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell

Literature, Novel, Atmosphere

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
Carroll O'Connor

Everything, Else, Value

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Needs, Dreamers, Doers

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Poverty, Means, Prejudice

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike

Great, Forget, Suffering

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

Truth, Liar, Single

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
Ayrton Senna

Life, Everything, Else

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Great, Minds, Rise

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton

Love, Woman, Cannot

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli

Long, Tell, Stories

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Lewis Carroll

Sky, Wonder, Fly

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Against, Senses

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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Charles de Montesquieu

Great, Become, Stand

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
David Allan Coe

Men, Equality, Place

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.
Michelle Obama

Love, Good, Best

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
James Allen

Yourself, Single, Purpose

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

Winning, Champion, Motivation

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll

Trust, Patience, Teacher

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Edwin Booth

Love, Good, Heart

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick

Good, Someone, Game

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Integrity, Virtue, Confident

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens

May, Fact, Often

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Deep, Enjoy, Thought

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
Honore de Balzac

Thought, Key, Enjoyment

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan

Patriotism, Real, Often

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.
Ann Coulter

Age, Idiot, Either

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
Kin Hubbard

Pretty, Getting, While

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell

Win, Effort, Average

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, Joy, Loves

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