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Tag Name "Raises" (1368)

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Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. We are the only women who raise men, the Spartan lady replied.
Plutarch
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place
Michael Medved
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Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.
James Chanos
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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
Andre Maurois
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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
Michael Haneke
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
Denis Diderot
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Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.
Margaret Fuller
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I think there's a certain limit to the number of times you can raise hairs on the back of peoples' heads before it gets kind of saccharin.
Mat McNerney
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
Toni Morrison
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If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.
Roger Milla
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Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.
Dave Heineman
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My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.
Emo Philips
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Luxury, by definition, means something that appears to be the best of whatever it represents. It's a word that raises people's expectations, whether talking about clothing for women or locations for people to live You pay for recognition, but probably the most important thing it represents is delivery on the promise of the brand's name.
Isadore Sharp
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If you have birds, or if you're a herpetologist and raise reptiles - you look in those eyes, and there is nothing there that's human. I mean, they don't think like us, they don't see the world like us.
Stephen R. Bissette
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Who are we to tell Lonzo Ball how to raise his kids. He's very entertaining and you've got to remember, guys, weren't we saying the same things about Richard Williams and Earl Woods? And how did their kids turn out? This works for the Ball family. He's a strong father figure. His kids love him and respect him, so what's everyone complaining about?
Mychal Thompson
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Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours not just the other person's everyone's.
Bob Burg
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I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
Mitt Romney
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Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.
Phil Ochs
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Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.
Gustave de Beaumont
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Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.
John Lubbock
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There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy and in no other way can true joy be found.
John Andreas Widtsoe
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I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.
Hillary Clinton
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I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
Nora Ephron
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There are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness .
Cheryl Richardson
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