#upward

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. ↗

— Plato

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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. ↗

— Plato

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Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward. ↗

— John Hull

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I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. ↗

— Broderick Crawford

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that. ↗

— Brian Boitano

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#come #downwards #even #habit #inorganic

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

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