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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. ↗

— Adam Smith

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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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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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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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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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