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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

  William Ellery Channing

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  Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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  Tags in Child, Superior

• At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You’re trying to make them laugh. They can’t laugh at someone they’re looking up to.

  Buddy Hackett

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• What happens on ‘Mad Men’ in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it’s superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it’s become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it’s a beautiful show to look at.

  Kurt Sutter

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• I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

  Sylvester Stallone

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  There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men; true nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

  Ernest Hemingway

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• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

  Honoré de Balzac

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• One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

  Pauline Kael

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• It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

  George Santayana

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• Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

  Georg Simmel

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• Men’s indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

  Thucydides

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• In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

  Terry Southern

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• I don’t think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

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• The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

  Edward Young

  Topics in Wisdom

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• I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn’t go along with me, I quit them.

  Elia Kazan

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  Tags in Superior, Communist

• Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

  William Bligh

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• Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

  Will Durst

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• Defense is superior to opulence.

  Adam Smith

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• Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

  Walter Lang

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• The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

  Topics in Country

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