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How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
Lorraine Toussaint
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Film Actress
Experience
Teacher
Deeper
Engagement
Higher
Within
Talk
Greatest
Quite
Determines
Walk
Personally
Push
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
Rainn Wilson
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Actor
Believe
Higher
Higher Power
Mature
Race
Resistance
Suffering
Life Power Believe
Suffer
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You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.
Stewart Butterfield
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Ability
Cohesion
Higher
Native
Team
Together
Working Together
Much
Less
Take
Degree
Effective
Working
Terms
Where
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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
Albert J. Nock
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Author
Cargo
Higher
Obliged
Useful Knowledge
Useful
Original
Languages
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The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.
Mike Fitzpatrick
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U.s. Representative
Deadline
Decision
Health Care
Higher
Penalties
Plans
Senior
Waiting
Years
Define
Wait
Options
Passes
Prices
Seniors
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow
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Psychologist
Accepting
Classic
Economic
Economic Theory
Higher
Human Needs
Impulse
Motivation
Needs
Reality
Self
Theory
Based
Revolutionized
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To really involve yourself in transforming yourself. That's the work that I'm really focused on through my company, Higher Ground Productions, is really helping people to really find a place of personal empowerment as well as inner peace.
Yolanda King
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Activist
Empowerment
Focused
Helping
Helping People
Higher
Inner Peace
Productions
Transforming
Inner
Involve
Personal
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We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
Mickey Drexler
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Certain
Goods
Higher
Instinct
Intuition
Numbers
Profit
Buy
Run
Consider
Sell
Low
Merchant
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We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.
Norman Lear
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Television Writer
Black
Father
Good Times
Higher
Incidence
Males
Article
Episode
James
Newspaper
Whites
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I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey Newton
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Political Activist
Patriotism
Chamber
Community
Consciousness
Defeat
Gas
Higher
Higher Level
Mean
Escape
Executed
Expect
Necessarily
No Time
Step
Trial
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There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
David Puttnam
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Film Producer
Education
Wisdom
Advice
Courses
Emerging
Evidence
Higher
Higher Education
Misinformation
Ignore
Perceived
Reliable
Sector
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There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
Derek Bok
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Lawyer
Appropriate
Billions
Dollars
Higher
Higher Education
Legislators
Tests
Years
Naturally
Billions Of Dollars
Each Year
Finding
How Much
Similar
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'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.
Tom Scholz
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Musician
Experience
Addict
Addiction
Easy
Hard
Higher
Higher Power
Process
Recovering
Tough
Addicted
Friend
Mine
Personal
Personal Experience
Result
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I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.
Chris Cleave
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Writer
Antithesis
Beautiful
Dissolution
Entropy
Higher
Motto
Stronger
Thinking
Extremely
Ideal
Olympic
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In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
Bob Riley
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Former Governor Of Alabama
Believe
Budgets
Children
Choices
Higher
Investing
Limited Resources
Priorities
Resources
Should Have
Time Future Believe
Future Time Believe
Classrooms
Tight
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I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking out for me. I've definitely had angels that have either guided me or helped me through moments in my life, without a doubt.
Christian Slater
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Actor
Doubt
Higher
Higher Power
Moments
Religious
Religious Person
Life Power Believe
Looking
Had
Angels
Through
Certainly
Definitely
Either
Guided
Means
Helped
My Life
Some
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
Victor Hugo
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Poet
Barriers
Higher
Humanity
Misery
Admit
Aiming
Elevated
Inferior
Seem
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Backwards
Higher
Truth Is
Time Truth People
Degree
Dial
Number
Truth Time People
From Time To Time
Telephone
Tendency
Time People
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
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Novelist
Christian
Eating
Higher
Humility
Lying
Plato
Preparing
Pride
Reading
Sleep
Standards
Temperance
Thankfulness
Bach
Infinitely
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I don't like sports where it's like, you watch a guy on a motorcycle flip or something, then another guy does it, it looks exactly the same, and then at the end one guy gets higher points! It seems so arbitrary; I don't know who's ahead ever.
Norm Macdonald
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Comedian
Sports
Arbitrary
Flip
Higher
Looks
Motorcycle
Ahead
Exactly
Exactly The Same
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I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.
Paula Deen
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Chef
Running
Higher
Long
People
Seeking
Scale
Money Me Long
Less Money
Long Run
Restaurant
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Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
Ron Wyden
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United States Senator
Business
Demand
Higher
Industry
Oil
Oil Industry
Words
Business People More
Basic
Buy
In Other Words
Lower
More People
Premise
Price
Runs
Supply
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In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.
Noam Chomsky
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Linguist
Higher
Massive
Other Countries
Purchasing
Purchasing Power
United States
Power Government Country
Countries
Except
Industrial
Negotiate
Prices
Reasons
Uses
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Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.
John W. Snow
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Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Running
Creating
Deficit
Exceed
Higher
Investment
Savings
United States
Account
Lots
Current
Domestic
Issue
Opportunities
Rates
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Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.
Ernie Els
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Golfer
Clubs
Easier
Green
Higher
Position
Sand
Ball
Hit
Club
Low
Wedge
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If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.
Al Unser
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Race Car Driver
Bones
Break
Bunch
Higher
Little Bit
Plates
Risk
Good Enough Me
Accident
Ankle
Good Me Enough
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I've talked to several CEOs - from a recycling company in Indiana, a furniture company in Kentucky, a brewing company in Colorado, and more - who believe paying higher wages is both the right thing to do and part of a successful business model.
Tom Perez
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Colorado
Company
Furniture
Higher
Indiana
Recycling
Right Thing
Successful
Wages
Business Model
Ceos
Model
Paying
Several
Talked
The Right Thing
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A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
Clark Kerr
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Aim
Balance
British
Confused
Higher
Preservation
Sake
Uneasy
University
Anywhere
German
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If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.
Graham Potter
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Higher
Higher Level
Current
Develop
Valued
Identify
In The Past
Market
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
Dana Spiotta
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Author
Higher
Ideas
Pay The Price
Thinking
Gotten
Grid
Price
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I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.
Kirk Hammett
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Guitarist
Complement
Fortunate
Higher
Spiritual
Surfing
Totally
Connect
Definitely
Realm
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The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
Christian Lous Lange
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Political Figure
Belief
Coherence
Developing
Eternity
Higher
Ideas
Personality
Raises
Real
Superhuman
Thirst
Absolute
Ideal
Steadily
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
Oprah Winfrey
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Media Proprietor
Failure
Fall
Higher
Law
Myth
Pushing
Remember
Constantly
Mention
Point
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Experience tells us that we do not need more overspending or higher taxes to grow jobs. We do not need more regulations or more government control - such as the government takeover of health care or the restrictions in domestic energy production.
Tim Walberg
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U.s. Representative
Energy Production
Health Care
Higher
Domestic
Government Control
Higher Taxes
Production
Regulations
Restrictions
Takeover
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If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
Tabitha Soren
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Photographer
Air
Higher
Mtv
Writing
Breaking
Camera
Cover
Event
Specifically
Young People
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I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that they could have maybe pursued a career in the concert music world, and perhaps been involved in a higher quality of music.
James Newton Howard
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Film Score Composer
Composer
Feels
Higher
Involved
Pursued
Concert
Extent
Higher Quality
Low
Music World
Perhaps
Trained
Took
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Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
James Stephens
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Novelist
Higher
Magic
Seeing
Believing
Follow
Forward
Happening
Sought
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If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?
Jack Canfield
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Author
Achieve
Asking
Fulfillment
Higher
Higher Level
Moving
Closer
Important Question
Question
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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
Vince Cable
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British Politician
Government
Britain
Competitiveness
Engineering
Financial
Financial Support
Higher
Higher Education
Minimum
Protect
Research
Subjects
Support
Basic
Considerable
Main
Scientific
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As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
Henry Giroux
/
Art
Education
Future
Caught
Higher
Higher Education
Intellectual
Liberal Arts
Moral
Offering
Paradox
People
Young
Future People Young
Education People Young
Education Future People
Arts
Them
Civic
Claiming
Itself
Invest
Few
Finds
Humanities
Liberal
Supports
While
Young People
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Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.
Reince Priebus
/
Government
Achievement
Economic Growth
Failing
Higher
Innovation
Backward
Higher Taxes
Sees
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The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.
Jim Knight
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British Politician
Challenges
Employers
Expectations
Higher
Mean
Standards
Bar
Economic Situation
Expectation
Global Market
Raising
Understandable
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I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.
Oscar Munoz
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Leadership
Corporate
Higher
Looks
Redefining
Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Everywhere
Civic
Embody
Further
Intend
Operate
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I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'
Nicole Scherzinger
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Recording Artist
Behave
Higher
Success Myself Always
Envisioned
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Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.
James Surowiecki
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Journalist
Jobs
Bankers
Believe
Circles
Description
Flight
Higher
Inflation
Investors
Tough
Vicious
Control
Job
Looking
Banker
Capital
Central
Circle
Course
Interest Rates
Job Description
Quickly
Rates
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
Carl Hiaasen
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Journalist
Believe
Elderly
Entertainment
Euthanasia
Higher
Idle
Ignorant
Palin
Temperature
Appointed
Beat
Iq
Sarah
Subject
Toward
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I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.
John Shelby Spong
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Author
Complication
Consciousness
Emerging
Fall
Higher
Levels
Light
Perfect
Sin
Side
Charles
Created
Darwin
Falling
Having
Higher Levels
Longer
Rather
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We all have an obligation as actors to be true to ourselves and our best instincts, but often there's a higher purpose, which is to serve the text and, in the grander sense, serve the series, even if that means to fall on your sword and take the hit.
Peter Scolari
/
Fall
Higher
Obligation
Purpose
Series
Hit
Be True
Instincts
Grander
Serve
Sword
Text
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I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
Betsey Johnson
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Fashion Designer
Designer
Dresses
Easier
Hate
Higher
Levels
Range
Truth Is
Price
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Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.
John Shadegg
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Former U.s. Representative
Chinese
Consumption
Demand
Driven
Force
Fuel
Growth
Higher
Increase
Indian
Percent
Years
Economies
Global
However
Largely
Prices
Projected
Rapidly
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