#above

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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.


Robert Musil


#actuality #along #always #average #awakens

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.


George Jean Nathan


#above #arbitrary #estate #often #principles

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.


Gloria Naylor


#accountability #american #american people #community #congress

To set the cause above renown.


Henry Newbolt


#cause #renown #set

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.


Simon Newcomb


#above #assaulting #down #during #fifteen

You have to stay one level above everyone else.


Jim Otto


#else #everyone #level #stay #you

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.


Barney Oliver


#army #expect #expense #great #i

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.


Barney Oliver


#colonization #demanding #far #figures #indicate

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.


George Orwell


#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.


Wilfred Owen


#ask #barren #held #i #want