"No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love."
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"There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation."
"People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all."
"Books are men of higher stature."
"The higher up I went, the less happy I was."
"I can say with great confidence that I was much more critical of the people I knew than of the people I didn't. Just because I know what they're capable of, so the bar is set so much higher for them - unfairly, frankly."
"Things always look different from higher up."
"Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire."
"Butter typically melts around, you know, 90 Fahrenheit, as opposed to about 20 degrees higher for lard. So what that means is that when you're working with it, the lard is going to stay more solid, which is great for flakiness."
"Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation"
"Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream."
"I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine."
"All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists."
"Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up."
"Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous."
"There is no life higher than the grasstops"
"Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher."
"One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold."
"You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall."
"Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business."