Quotes about Raises (291 quotes)

Every wolf's and lion's howl Raises from Hell a human soul. Votes: 3

William Blake

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. Votes: 3

Benjamin Franklin

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. Votes: 3

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Gazzy: (Hugging himself and jumping up and down) "I'm brilliant! I'm a genius! I can blow up the world!" Max: (Raises her eyebrows) Gazzy: "Not that I would want to, of course," (coughs) Votes: 3

James Patterson

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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly Raises the spirits, and charms our ears. Votes: 3

John Gay

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I can tell you that solitudeIs not all exaltation, inner spaceWhere the soul breaths and work can be done.Solitude exposes the nerve,Raises up ghosts.The past, never at rest, flows through it. Votes: 3

May Sarton

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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it. Votes: 3

May Sarton

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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Votes: 3

Joseph Addison

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I play to lift a city, and raise a banner. Votes: 2

Prince Fielder

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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Votes: 2

Rumi

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Votes: 2

George Bernard Shaw

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Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed. Votes: 2

Mia Hamm

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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering Votes: 2

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world. Votes: 2

Zig Ziglar

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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. Votes: 2

Rene Descartes

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At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues? Votes: 2

Leticia Van de Putte

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You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any. Votes: 2

Bill Cosby

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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. Votes: 2

Gloria Steinem

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He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. Votes: 2

Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity Votes: 2

Horace

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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. Votes: 2

Norman Vincent Peale

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Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding. Votes: 2

Dale Carnegie

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There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are. Votes: 2

Nik Wallenda

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Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do. Votes: 2

Michael Pollan

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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. Votes: 2

Martha Beck

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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome. Votes: 2

Plutarch

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Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs. Votes: 2

Phil Robertson

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You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake. Votes: 2

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world. Votes: 2

Lysa TerKeurst

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Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy. Votes: 1

Junot Diaz

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Art raises its head where creeds relax. Votes: 1

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough. Votes: 1

Paul J. Meyer

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. Votes: 1

John Petit-Senn

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There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. Votes: 1

Robert Quillen

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Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. Votes: 1

Evita Peron

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. Votes: 1

Horace

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Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness. Votes: 1

Shawn Achor

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The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection. Votes: 1

Li Keqiang

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Eclipse' is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn't a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: 'When does Concept morph into Gimmick?' Votes: 1

Robert Gottlieb

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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. Votes: 1

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business. Votes: 1

Katharine Weymouth

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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. Votes: 1

Will Durant

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The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. Votes: 1

Francis Crick

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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Votes: 1

Leon Trotsky

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Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? Votes: 1

Elizabeth Janeway

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Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest. Votes: 1

Stephen Harper

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I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow. Votes: 1

Hilarie Burton

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The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. Votes: 1

Christian Lous Lange

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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. Votes: 1

Og Mandino

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Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will? Votes: 1

David Augsburger

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Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies. Votes: 1

Michael Moss

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Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild. Votes: 1

Cameron Sinclair

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The bar raises as you go. Votes: 0

William H. Macy

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition. Votes: 0

Jose Manuel Barroso

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God raises the level of the impossible. Votes: 0

Corrie Ten Boom

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A good piece of art raises questions. Votes: 0

Rebecca Hall

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The March sunne raises but dissolves not. Votes: 0

George Herbert

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Your virtue raises your glory above your crime. Votes: 0

Pierre Corneille

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Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems. Votes: 0

Karl Popper

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The government will fall that raises the price of beer. Votes: 0

Czech Proverb

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The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas. Votes: 0

H. G. Wells

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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him. Votes: 0

Alexander Pushkin

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Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions. Votes: 0

Gustave de Beaumont

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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule. Votes: 0

John Stuart Mill

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[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh. Votes: 0

Ingrid Bergman

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Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect. Votes: 0

Andrew Sullivan

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. Votes: 0

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact. Votes: 0

Jamie Dimon

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Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated. Votes: 0

Max Weber

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An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community. Votes: 0

Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

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Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community. Votes: 0

Phyllis Theroux

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Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die. Votes: 0

Rashi

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Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession. Votes: 0

T. Allen Lawson

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A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. Votes: 0

Herbert Spencer

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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble. Votes: 0

Kate Christensen

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Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being. Votes: 0

Sara Maitland

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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers. Votes: 0

Babatunde Fashola

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The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%. Votes: 0

Daniel Kahneman

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Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture. Votes: 0

Baltasar Gracian

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Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost. Votes: 0

David Neeleman

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When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes. Votes: 0

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits. Votes: 0

Rebecca Solnit

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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead. Votes: 0

John Piper

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He who raises a question opens knowledge and he who gives an answer limits knowledge Votes: 0

Respicius Rwehumbiza

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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height. Votes: 0

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better. Votes: 0

Richard Dormer

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God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century. Votes: 0

William Romaine

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Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy. Votes: 0

Dan Bartlett

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Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder! Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt. Votes: 0

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer

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I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises Votes: 0

Jeremy Griffith

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Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it. Votes: 0

Nancy Friday

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Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults. Votes: 0

Paul A. Offit

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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. Votes: 0

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. Votes: 0

Michael Chabon

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Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will. Votes: 0

Mark Ravenhill

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Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies. Votes: 0

Everett Dirksen

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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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For girls, it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight. Votes: 0

Ronda Rousey

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Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.... Votes: 0

Jacqueline Bisset

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Love may be the answer, but even though you're watching for the solution, intercourse raises some rather interesting thoughts. Votes: 0

Woody Allen

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Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid Votes: 0

Cheng Man-ch'ing

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Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. Votes: 0

Christopher Buckley

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Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power. Votes: 0

Amit Ray

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Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's. Votes: 0

Bob Burg

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It raises several serious questions. For example, how can there possibly be more than one person as awesome as me? Votes: 0

Zach Braff

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The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up! Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. Votes: 0

Alexandra David-Neel

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Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.' Votes: 0

Roger Moore

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People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare. Votes: 0

Azim Premji

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The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged. Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

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Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher. Votes: 0

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture. Votes: 0

Ben Horowitz

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I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world. Votes: 0

Linda Evangelista

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Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light. Votes: 0

Lucretius

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I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization. Votes: 0

Linda Ronstadt

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Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him. Votes: 0

Charles Peguy

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Becoming excellent at want, helps raises your confidence and develops your courage. Most of all, it can give you a grand reputation. Votes: 0

Mark F. LaMoure

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I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis. Votes: 0

Nora Ephron

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And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes. Votes: 0

Richard Corliss

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Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation. Votes: 0

Murray Rothbard

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Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties. Votes: 0

Clare Boothe Luce

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My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all. Votes: 0

Jennifer Beals

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Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new. Votes: 0

Kathryn Stockett

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I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. Votes: 0

Alberto Sordi

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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it? Votes: 0

Michael Barone

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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially. Votes: 0

Ralph G. Neas

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One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions. Votes: 0

Rob Bell

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It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially. Votes: 0

Ralph Neas

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The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful. Votes: 0

Kirsten Gillibrand

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As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be. Votes: 0

Jane Addams

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The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions Votes: 0

Jacque Fresco

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The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd. Votes: 0

Lowell Thomas

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As Global Warming raises temparatures, it takes longer to cool pies on window sills, and I wonder if this whole thing was caused by hobos. Votes: 0

Dana Gould

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This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. Votes: 0

Robert Benchley

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Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides. Votes: 0

John Yudkin

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A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do? Votes: 0

Rahul Gandhi

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Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast. Votes: 0

Elie Ducommun

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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven. Votes: 0

Novalis

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When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it. Votes: 0

Joyce Meyer

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Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us. Votes: 0

Peter Singer

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. Votes: 0

Kurt Lewin

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Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers. Votes: 0

Roger Ebert

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I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine. Votes: 0

Liam Neeson

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Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time. Votes: 0

Zach Condon

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The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort. Votes: 0

Mark Millar

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My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand. Votes: 0

Henry Mintzberg

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I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things. Votes: 0

Don Cheadle

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Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested. Votes: 0

Emily Giffin

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Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious. Votes: 0

Wangari Maathai

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I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves? Votes: 0

Charles Lindbergh

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The chances of someone who looks like Jesus having pot raises steadily, to a point. If the guy is on a cross you may have the wrong guy. Votes: 0

Demetri Martin

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A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable. Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities. Votes: 0

David Ricardo

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I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions. Votes: 0

Elena Kagan

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Yesterday on CNN, Joe Biden said he hasn't made up his mind about whether he'll run for president in 2016. Which raises the question: 'Who was raising that question?' Votes: 0

Jimmy Fallon

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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever. Votes: 0

Giordano Bruno

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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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The Globe reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raises money by selling fake Viagra pills. What it is about this guy? None of his missiles seem to launch. Votes: 0

Jay Leno

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All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe. Votes: 0

C. Everett Koop

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Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals. Votes: 0

Shawn Achor

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Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers. Votes: 0

Nicolas Cage

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Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice. Votes: 0

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful. Votes: 0

David Chang

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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Engel & Volkers is unlike any other real estate company I have known and I am proud to be part of an organization that raises the bar to such high levels. Votes: 0

Anthony Hitt

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Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know. Votes: 0

Jonathan Franzen

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I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs. Votes: 0

Robert Hurt

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Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that? Votes: 0

David Letterman

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a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own. Votes: 0

Margaret Deland

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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love. Votes: 0

Michelangelo

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Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. Votes: 0

St. Ephrem of Syria

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Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. Votes: 0

Ephrem the Syrian

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If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger. Votes: 0

Daymond John

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When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly. Votes: 0

Susan Davis

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I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations. Votes: 0

Alan Thicke

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There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community. Votes: 0

David Steindl-Rast

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision. Votes: 0

Frank Rich

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Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started. Votes: 0

Reggie Fils-Aime

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Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill. Votes: 0

Guru Nanak

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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 Votes: 0

Michael Medved

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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. Votes: 0

Michael Medved

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Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives. Votes: 0

Brennan Manning

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When a nation uses their improperly gained or intelligence-wise gained information to take policy positions that impact another nation's democracy or their approach to any issue, then that raises real serious matters. Votes: 0

Jeff Sessions

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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Donald Trump's campaign has raised about $100,000 in donations during the second quarter. Which raises an important question: Who is giving Donald Trump money? That's like giving your money to a pile of money. Votes: 0

Jimmy Fallon

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A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries. Votes: 0

Onyi Anyado

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A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive people?" and "How do we present our country?" Votes: 0

Sjon

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There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God. Votes: 0

Pope John Paul II

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Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor. Votes: 0

Hugh Evans

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Working to become excellent at what you want, raises your confidence, charisma and develops courage. As you work to become top notch, it also gives you a great reputation at what you do. Votes: 0

Mark F. LaMoure

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The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions. Votes: 0

Northrop Frye

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I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who lost a parent or whose parent was severely wounded in combat. Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. Votes: 0

James S. Coleman

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I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. Votes: 0

Martha Smith

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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along. Votes: 0

Clarence Darrow

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When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states. Votes: 0

Charles Kennedy

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In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. Votes: 0

Arne Jacobsen

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The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct. Votes: 0

Solomon Asch

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only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend. Votes: 0

Naomi Shihab Nye

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Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes. Votes: 0

Dale Carnegie

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Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully. Votes: 0

Harry A. Blackmun

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Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too. Votes: 0

Kathryn Stockett

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When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met. Votes: 0

Mitch Kapor

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Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others cannot be true liberty. Votes: 0

Oscar Romero

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What meaning have you found? What truth do you claim? For what purpose are you living? Life itself raises these questions. How can anyone help asking 'what' and 'why' when surrounded by an infinite sky? Votes: 0

Ron James

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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. Votes: 0

Athenaeus

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Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you. Votes: 0

Eleanor Smeal

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An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so. Votes: 0

Louis de Bernieres

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