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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. ↗

— Terry Riley

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The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

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I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it. ↗

— Charles Schumer

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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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