#elevate

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. ↗

— Brock Yates

#been #bicycle #child #damage #elevated

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#away #choose #elevated #every #every time

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago. ↗

— George Soros

#ago #already #ballot #being #could

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. ↗

— Alexander Walker

#degradation #degrade #elevate #elevating #falling

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness. ↗

— Saul Williams

#been #consciousness #cool #elevate #hip-hop

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment. ↗

— Randy Castillo

#just #levels #like #music #new

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#great #great passions #great things #only #passions

Music can elevate man to new heights. Especially elevator music. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#man #music #music

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#elevate #fall #like #people #real

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow