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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. Francis Bacon | top
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Henry Ward Beecher | top
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The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. Vinoba Bhave | top
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Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that. Brian Boitano | top
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte | top
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This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history. Robert Byrd | top
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. Willa Cather | top
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This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. Laurent Fabius | top
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Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love. Andy Gibb | top
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky. Barry Gibb | top
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. Andre Gide | top
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Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. Elizabeth Harrison | top
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When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward. John Hull | top
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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | top
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It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. Alfred Loisy | top
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Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | top
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I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! Humphrey Lyttelton | top
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. Guy de Maupassant | top
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato | top
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. Plato | top
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. Bertrand Russell | top
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. Carl Sandburg | top
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. Josef Skvorecky | top
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. Elizabeth Cady Stanton | top
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time. Frances E. Willard | top
