"We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it."
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"Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result of teachers' belief in their level of intelligence."
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"The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level."
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"We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level."
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"When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary."
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"I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy."
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"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."
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"If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now."
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"The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well."
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"There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities."
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"One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing."
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"A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob."
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"Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness"
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"It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level."
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"Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights."
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"The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest."
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"All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned."
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"A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption."
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"There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level."
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"Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man."
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