#superior

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#arises #being #branch #dictates #higher

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agree #intellect #mark #pessimism #superior

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#did #fighter #fired #general #give

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. ↗

— John Milton

#character #deeds #himself #his #man

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#far #film #poetry #superior #theater

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ↗

— Plato

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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#bring #delight #down #itself #level