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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bernard Barton

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As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. ↗

— John Cassavetes

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What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. ↗

— John Dryden

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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me. ↗

— Bob Geldof

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Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve. ↗

— Brit Hume

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With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest. ↗

— Guy Johnson

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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

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