Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Superior Quotes from famous persons: Jack Ramsay, Marilyn French, Charlie Pierce, Edward Gibbon, Ashton Kutcher. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Superior Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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Defense is superior to opulence.
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I believe good corporate governance is critical in enhancing competitiveness and creating industry – leading profitable growth and superior returns for every stakeholder of the institution.
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I just don’t understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I’m vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot – and it’s not that I believe my taste is superior, I just can not believe that other people don’t care.
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Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle infrastructure superior in functionality and attractiveness.
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.
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If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse – and why his own alternative path forward is superior – then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.
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The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.
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There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.
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Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.
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I don’t believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.
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Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy… unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy – alas, America!
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Any small business that’s predicated on technological innovation and is differentiated and superior can expand globally very effectively using the Internet as a vehicle for promotion.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he’s educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he’d have three kids from three different women… I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?
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Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
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For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship – Shakespeare, Cervantes.
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Until you get your reputation made, you have to work twice as hard… there is always a doubt in your superior’s mind as to whether you will put family before your job.
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Humans having any kind of sporting chance against hostile alien invaders armed with superior technology – Good luck. If they’re advanced enough to cross the enormous distances of interstellar space, they’re advanced enough to wipe us out without breaking whatever in their physiology passes for a sweat.
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The sixth move of doom? Yeah. So John Cena went to China, took some lessons, and all of a sudden, now he’s got a bad palm strike. Listen, I’ve been traveling the world for years and I’ve been beating up people with martial arts techniques from far superior styles and techniques. So, I ain’t worried about that.
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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
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I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
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I love ‘The Wire‘. I can’t think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love ‘Doctor Who‘ and ‘Get Smart’.
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Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They’re so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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The object of the superior man is truth.
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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It’s important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.
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IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.
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Personally (and I believe I can speak for my sisters on this), I am against any organization or individual who believes they are superior to and/or may wish harm upon another because of race, ethnic background, religion, or sexual orientation. We also believe in the potential unification of humanity as a whole.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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My upbringing is such that I feel my husband is superior to me and his mother even more superior.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else‘s. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.
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The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person – the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
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Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one’s physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.
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The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.
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The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren’t very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.
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If wars were won by superior technology alone, the United States would not have been vanquished in Vietnam or waylaid in Afghanistan.
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I feel I’m athletically superior to most of the guys I go against.
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I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don’t have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.
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In the E.U., there are always morally superior people who think they have to educate the others.
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I actually believe we are the superior gender. Why are we superior? Statistically, we outlive men by a good 10 years. No one should underestimate the power of nagging – it’s on par with nuclear weapons.
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I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
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My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools.
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
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I learned from McDonald‘s that we can do great things from a marketing and advertising perspective, but if the experience at the restaurant isn’t superior, it might not matter.
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When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame – not superior will power.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
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Evolutionary science kind of bears that out: When species are rivals and competing for space and resources, the superior one wins. Nature has no compunction about that; it just is.
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As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.
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Superior people never make long visits.
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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Don’t tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.
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Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.
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Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.
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All of my work has been an effort to show that Christianity is superior and not just another mythology.
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Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
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That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
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Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of ‘good money.’ As a tangible form of asset (its core tangibility being its mathematical basis), it could become an incredibly important building block for the 21st century’s global economy.
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As human beings, it is natural for us to pick up signals about what is valued in our environment and to want to embody those values. But being superior and infallible isn’t something to strive for. Those values do not encourage people to do what is good for their organization in the long run.
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When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it’s impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn’t left an imprint through the generations. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me – I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
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We were taught in school that there was a fundamental difference between black people and white people – that we were superior.
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Being a YouTuber, I agree that YouTube‘s content is much more superior than TikTok. If people say TikTok has cringe content, YouTube also does. But content is subjective.
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Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me – I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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I grew up in an all-female family – two sisters and a mostly single mother – and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.
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In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and operations.
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I’ve been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It’s very gratifying to watch your job done better.
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I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
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The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
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I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.
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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
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But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
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Most beginners who have learned the point system will only consider a sacrifice if it leads directly to checkmate or if the material can be won back by force. A Grandmaster, though, will frequently sacrifice for less tangible compensation, such as a lead in development or a superior pawn structure.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and ‘You against us’ and ‘We are superior and you are inferior.’ Which people are legitimate? Which relationships are legitimate or not? Who declares that under which authority? These are things that are hugely important.
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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
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Some people confuse confidence with arrogance. There’s no doubt in the business world there are a few big egos and I think arrogance can get in the way. But if you have the confidence to go to your higher superior and say this is wrong, it can make a difference.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it’s involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.
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Having already used a Fox shock in my Moto Knee, the prosthetic leg I developed, I knew that I would take advantage of Fox’s superior suspension dynamics in the Versa Foot as well.
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The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they’re necessarily superior.
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Is there a God superior to Mahadev? I don’t think so. If there was, I would have done it.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
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I don’t feel superior because I think there’s no God. Actually, I would love to be able to go, ‘Well, the world hasn’t been kind to me, but there’s something good around the corner, because the Man has a plan.’ I wish I believed that. There’s wonderful comfort in that.
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If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
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The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
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Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association‘s annual meeting, I’m met with a display of someone else’s superior intelligence.
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Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
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We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
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It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
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What you’re saying is that ‘I, the superior elite, will take care of you.’ Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can’t be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.
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There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.
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That’s why I’m not on Twitter and don’t have an iPhone. It’s not because I’m superior to it: it’s because I would be a slave to it, and I don’t want that to happen.
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The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads… It includes… the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.
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Aren’t most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations… but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
