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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. ↗

— Carl Schurz

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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written. ↗

— Ted Shawn

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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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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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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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For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

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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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