#rise above

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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Reality is something you rise above. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ↗

— Washington Irving

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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. ↗

— Robert Heilbroner

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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. ↗

— Viola Davis

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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. ↗

— James Connolly

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