William Blake
Poet, Painter
"We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them."
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Rise Above
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Archimedes
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer
"Rise above oneself and grasp the world."
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator."
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"We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them."
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"You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above."
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"It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds."
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"Occasionally, a man must rise above principles."
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"Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence."
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"We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it."
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"Rise above principal and do what's right."
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"The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth."
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"Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind."
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"The talkers are rising above the thinkers."
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"Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional."
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"We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174"
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"An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it."
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"Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man."
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