#highest

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

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What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being number nine on the list. That's my goal. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

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The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

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Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. ↗

— Thomas John Barnardo

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National honor is the national property of the highest value. ↗

— James Monroe

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

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I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ." --Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling ↗

— Brother Andrew

#god #highest-calling #living-for-christ #purpose #sacrifice

America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials. ↗

— Kit Bond

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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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