"The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them"
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"The police need to come down to street level."
"Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service."
"Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka."
"A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God."
"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did."
"The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level."
"Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail."
"I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies."
"The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors."
"When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world."
"Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation."
"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it."
"The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox."
"If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level."
"I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company."
"The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become."
"It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized."
"A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours."
"On every level I have played I've heard, `Am I going to perform or not because of my size?' I think I have proved to people I can perform regardless of how big I am."