#stature

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. ↗

— Garson Kanin

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place. ↗

— Michael Medved

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If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being? ↗

— Joy Page

#every #full #how #left #many

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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