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Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed. -- Tupac Shakur
Feed the mind good wisdom, the body good nutrition, the soul good vibes, and the heart good love. Elevation for your situation. -- T.F. Hodge
My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image -- Saint Colette
There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices. -- Ernestine Rose
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. -- Muhammad Iqbal
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. -- Charles Sumner
Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race. -- Susan Vreeland
Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that. -- Jitin Prasada
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. -- Peter Zumthor
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. -- T. S. Eliot
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. -- Henry David Thoreau
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex. -- Lucy Stone
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. -- Matthew Simpson
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. -- Thomas Huxley
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. -- James Weldon Johnson
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. -- Seamus Heaney
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. -- Matthew Simpson
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. -- John Sergeant Wise
When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws. -- Joseph P. Bradley
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts. -- Lawrence Hargrave
I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do. -- Bill Cosby
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. -- James Weldon Johnson
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me. -- Henry Ossawa Tanner
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life. -- Ernestine Rose
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people. -- Joseph Pulitzer
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. -- Edith Stein
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation. -- Mark Helprin
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation. -- Benjamin Franklin
What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation? -- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls -- David Pleat
Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation. -- Roderick L. Evans
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. -- Soren Kierkegaard
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open. -- T.F. Hodge
People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc. -- Sunday Adelaja
What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation! -- Henry David Thoreau
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. -- William Hazlitt
History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. -- Edward Gibbon
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through contribution. -- Capies Pitts
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution. -- Capies Pitts
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man -- Charles Sumner
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation. -- Bruce Lee
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own. -- Geraldine Brooks
To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.... -- Ben Macintyre
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. -- Juvenal
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers. -- Margaret Thatcher
Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level. -- Tony Gaskins
It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. -- Matt Nathanson
Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. -- Leland Ryken
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value. -- Mark Twain
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path. -- Dalai Lama
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice. -- Myles Munroe
Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity. -- Oswald Chambers
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action. -- Samuel Johnson
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality -- Gilles Deleuze
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all. -- Frances Power Cobbe
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise -- Steven Pinker
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment. -- Blaise Pascal
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important. -- Barack Obama
As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not. -- Stewart Brand
What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty. -- Matthew Arnold
Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences. -- Jane Austen
Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so. -- Martin Delany
Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls. -- Raquel Cepeda
There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me. -- Jimmy Carter
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress. -- Herbert Spencer
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. -- Samuel Johnson
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation. -- Walter Savage Landor

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