"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."
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"Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights."
"The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base."
"Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up."
"The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation"
"Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."
"The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief."
"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
"He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is."
"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."
"Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank."
"If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights."
"If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back."
"The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation."
"On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying"
"The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy."
"The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height."
"Every man at three years old is half his height"
"Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced."
"Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights."