#highest

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor. ↗

— Ray Charles

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Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

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The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life. ↗

— John Chrysostom

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I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. ↗

— Steven Chu

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You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

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This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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I've been really at the highest levels of American political life. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

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Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. ↗

— Alan Cohen

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