#ascend

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. ↗

— Edward Gorey

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This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

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But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature. ↗

— Nick Lampson

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We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

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If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment. ↗

— William Lilly

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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