“ They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love. ”
- Annamalai Swami- Copy
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“ We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. ”
- Marcus Garvey- Copy
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“ The real challenge is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs. ”
- Michael Sky- Copy
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“ Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ”
- Robert MacNeil- Copy
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“ In confession… we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are. ”
- Louis Cassels- Copy
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“ A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head… ”
- Wilfred A. Peterson- Copy
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“ Love or music- which power can uplift man to the sublimest heights? It is a large question; yet it sseems to me one should answer it in this way: Love cannot give an idea of music; music can give an idea of love. But why seperate them? They are the two wings of the soul. ”
- Hector Berlioz- Copy
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“ Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people. ”
- Rebecca Harding Davis- Copy
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“ Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations. ”
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt- Copy
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“ It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. ”
- Ian McEwan- Copy
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“ Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating… ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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