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    As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.

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    As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.

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    A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.

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    Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

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    At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

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    At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

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    But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.

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    Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

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    Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

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    Censorship is the height of vanity.

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    Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

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    Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

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    But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.

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    Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

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    Doing something else and just adding whatever Pusha T nuances on it, now you're doing something cheaper. You started one place and took it to its heights, and now you're regressing. I don't think I should be exploring that right now.

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    Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

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    Every man at three years old is half his height

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    Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

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    Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

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    For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

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    For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

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    Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon.

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    Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.

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    Even if it doesn't fit the woman, like, let's say a very short skirt, and the woman doesn't have the legs or the height to wear the skirt, but she has to wear it because it's fashionable. Don't do it! If it doesn't look good on you, don't worry about it.

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    Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

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    For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!

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    Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

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    Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

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    From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

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    He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

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    Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

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    Heights don't bother me...It's falling and cracking my skull that freaks me out.

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    He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.

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    Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

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    I am afraid of abandonment, and, if you will, in a really existential way, being exposed as a fraud. Everyone's afraid of it, and I definitely am. This is a fear that motivates. Oh, and heights. And getting stabbed.

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    I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

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    I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

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    I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.

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    I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

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    I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

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    I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.

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    I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

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    If heaven had a height, you would be that tall

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    I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

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    If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

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    I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.

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    If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.

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    If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.

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    If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

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    If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.