#supreme

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions. ↗

— Judy Biggert

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In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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