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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. ↗

— John Cage

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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. ↗

— John Cage

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Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

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I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren. ↗

— Tom Coburn

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A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ↗

— Joe Davis

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To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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