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Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale. -- David Horsey
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. -- Ken Robinson
It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years. -- Diana Nyad
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. -- George Will
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. -- Heinrich Mann
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. -- Alexander Walker
To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good. -- Dorothea Dix
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. -- Edgar Allan Poe
My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life. -- Ginger Rogers
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking. -- Dennis Prager
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home. -- Dennis Prager
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it. -- Lucy Larcom
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated? -- Henry David Thoreau
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? -- James Thomson
I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk. -- Andrew Weil
I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning. -- Jurgen Habermas
It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down. -- Antoine Fuqua
In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale. -- Caleb Deschanel
The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. -- Orison Swett Marden
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it. -- Mary Baker Eddy
You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system. -- W. Edwards Deming
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking. -- William Safire
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Everybody got a taste of success and everybody wants to keep elevating that to the next level. -- Kevin Harvick
Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them. -- Henry Drummond
I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship. -- Kobe Bryant
... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them. -- Albert Einstein
To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. -- Peter Joseph
Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class. -- Juan Manuel Santos
Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future. -- Jerome Groopman
[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world. -- Conor Oberst
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. -- Richard Allen Epstein
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired. -- Samuel Smiles
Obliging a lady with respect is to pay tribute to her womanhood in elevating society from her role as a daughter, sister, mother and wife. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably. -- Jackie Kennedy
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men! -- Heinrich von Treitschke
I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad. -- Bella Abzug
We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible. -- Bryant H. McGill
Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work. -- Samael Aun Weor
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument. -- Plato
We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible. -- Bryant H. McGill
Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn. -- Philip Yancey
Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also. -- Wayne White
Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply. -- Luther Burbank
Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process. -- Jaggi Vasudev
The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself. -- Adolf Hitler
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue. -- Ann Bridge
It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer. -- Bryan Fuller
In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . . -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting. -- George Orwell
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play and placing it in the larger context of society. -- Roone Arledge
NIKE is focused on elevating and accelerating innovation in our products, services and our digital ecosystem. This requires progressive and agile technology solutions that keep pace with our growth, which is what Juniper's solutions offer. -- Anthony Watson

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