"The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up."
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"The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge."
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"The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these."
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"I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over."
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"Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else."
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"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution."
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"No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight."
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"The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world."
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"The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician."
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"Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act."
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"Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for?"
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"Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife"
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"This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level."
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"If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service."
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"Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche."
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"British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level."
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"If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow."
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"I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity."
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"Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are"
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"The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease."
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