Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"All rising to great places is by a winding stair."
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Rising
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Emily Dickinson
Poet
"I must go in, the fog is rising."
Muhammad Iqbal
Poet, Philosopher
"It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."
Rosa Luxemburg
Political Theorist, Activist
"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat."
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"Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun."
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"As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity."
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"The rising tide lifts all the boats."
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"Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God."
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"I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun."
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"A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide."
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"In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas."
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"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."
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"George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising."
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"A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?"
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"You've seen my descent, now watch my rising."
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"Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain."
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"My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody."
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"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation."
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"Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life"
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"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?"
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"A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats."
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"Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies."
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"I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen."
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"I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel."
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