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2016 isn't going to be an election about whoever's got the loftiest rhetoric, folks are going to look past at what people are saying and look at what you've done. – Rick Perry	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Allah is Its Charter goal, the Prophet its model to be followed, the Koran its constitution, Jihad its way, and death for the sake of Allah its loftiest desire. – Its Charter	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on. – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot. – Johannes Trithemius, 1488	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself. – Henry Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 14 years ago

2016 isn't going to be an election about whoever's got the loftiest rhetoric, folks are going to look past at what people are saying and look at what you've done.

– Rick Perry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Allah is Its Charter goal, the Prophet its model to be followed, the Koran its constitution, Jihad its way, and death for the sake of Allah its loftiest desire.

– Its Charter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

– Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

– Havelock Ellis

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.

– Johannes Trithemius, 1488

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

– Mark Twain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

– Henry Havelock Ellis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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