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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
Vaclav Havel

Human, Everything, Control

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.
Dee Dee Myers

Successful, Powerful, Often

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume

Reason, Reflection, Room

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Ovid

Beauty, Truth, Reality

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
John Elway

Both, Appreciate, Ends

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles

Good, Reason, Mankind

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Stars, Heaven, Visible

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck

Place, Republic, Lad

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Novalis

Men, Democracy, Fact

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.
Glenn Beck

Peace, God, Nothing

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman

Selfish, Religious, Pleasure

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph

Powerful, Person, Enjoy

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Tom Robbins

Love, Makes, Loved

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
David Herbert Lawrence

Human, Why, Far

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
Jay Leno

Down, Wine, Beer

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
Benjamin Carson

Football, Basketball, Same

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
Luther Burbank

Love, Great, Humanity

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Food, Hatred, Rather

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Samuel Richardson

Friendship, Marriage, Time

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
Jack Black

Life, Music, Spiritual

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
Guru Nanak

Happiness, Alone, Wife

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Freedom, Creation, Angel

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
Mia Hamm

Age, Experience, Long

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
Wayne Gretzky

Work, Hard, Dog

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Helen Rowland

Wife, Woman, Her

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

End, Political, Liberty

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Art, True

I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.
LeBron James

Game, Basketball, Win

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
Marco Rubio

Government, Country, Effort

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