#higher

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#death #dumb #evolution #higher #nothing

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one. ↗

— Ralph Ransom

#constantly #created #goal #higher #improving

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#america #any #blood #brother #citizen

I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road. ↗

— Craig Armstrong

#bigger #cleaner #deficits #environment #forcing

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#prevention #priority #terrorism #than

Life has a higher end, than to be amused. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#amused #end #higher #than

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. ↗

— James Chanos

#asset #bubble #building #buy #cash

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#got #higher #higher plane #how #knowledge

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#becomes #difficult #exceed #expectations #fine

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#degree #dial #does #everybody #find