![If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds [sic] tongues and peoples; and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-we-would-reach-a-degree-of-civilization-higher-and-grander-than-any-yet-attain.jpg)
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To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth. Charles Spurgeon
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The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion. Edgar Allan Poe
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I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them. Eddie Vedder
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I worked with Joe at the Eagles and the one thing you can say is that his players always excel. Sean Payton
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Where carcasses are, eagles will gather, And where good laws are, much people flock thither Benjamin Franklin
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Unlike the northern states, eagles that reside in New Jersey are pretty much year-round residents ? they don't migrate out because we always have open water. Kathy Clark
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I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota. Chip Kelly
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break. Chinua Achebe
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A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building. Chanakya
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The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed. Albert Schweitzer
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Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
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so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world. Mahmoud Abbas
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More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom. Karen Hughes
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No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse Theodore Roosevelt
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Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics. Diane Ravitch
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America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one. Dennis Prager
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When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense. Denis Hayes
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The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. Dean Koontz
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The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk
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No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
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Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
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Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one
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Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.
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We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness. Abdul Kalam
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All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings. Charles Caleb Colton
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before. Alan Jay Lerner