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61 " Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means "
62 " The wisdom to be on the throne of one’s life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat. "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough , An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
63 " Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it. There was no one to watch him, nor did he watch himself, but struggles like his are the supreme achievements of humanity, and surpass any legends about Heavan. "
― E.M. Forster , Maurice
64 " Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position. "
― Toyotomi Hideyoshi
65 " Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position. "
66 " There were more recent markings as well-initials scratched over the pictographs, some with dates. people were always wanting to announce their existence to the world in a way that would surpass the ages, creating some sort of immortality. For all Karigan knew, the more ancient carvings were just another incarnation of such an urge. "
― Kristen Britain , The High King's Tomb (Green Rider, #3)
67 " The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own. "
― Emily Dickinson
68 " The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways. "
― Andrew Vachss
69 " If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
70 " He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself. "
71 " A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. "
72 " It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always this occupation ought to last as long as life. "
73 " I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? "
74 " Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows. "
75 " Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. "
76 " If you want to surpass the stages of doubt and secure better communication between your inner and outer body it is wise to surpass the challenge of the words ‘if only’. "
― Stephen Richards , Be First: Achieve Every Dream
77 " If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more. "
78 " From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history. "
79 " Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in. "