"No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher."
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"To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness."
"If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art."
"For what level of mediocrity will you settle?"
"No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days."
"Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care."
"Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism."
"Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups."
"It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment."
"Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible."
"Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level"
"When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty."
"My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity."
"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
"To meet somebody who's able to harness the level of courage it takes to walk away and to choose your own life and your own health, the well-being of your family, is really inspiring."
"I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties."
"A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf."
"Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace."
"A man must constantly exceed his level"
"I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then."