Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals."
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Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it."
Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
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"The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success)."
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"I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them."
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"On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects."
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"Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable."
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"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons."
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"Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music."
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"When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone’s got? Of course he isn’t. . . . It’ll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown."
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"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another."
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"The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life."
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"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."
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"That's probably one of my biggest gripes with the Internet - that it settles for mediocrity and disinformation, which puts all information on the same level. Everything has the same value, whether it's Albert Einstein speaking, or yoohoo27@msn.com."
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"Those who succeed have a clear, focused picture of their success. The level of success they attain matches the expansiveness of their dreams"
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"There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level."
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"Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption."
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"people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness."
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"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well."
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"Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance."
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"I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that."
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""To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written."
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"On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp."
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