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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create. ↗

— Christo

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The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. ↗

— Steven Chu

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I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren. ↗

— Tom Coburn

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We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

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When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within. ↗

— Judith Wright

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I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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