- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rise Quotes
What lifts us, and what won't stay down.
A quieter image opens this page - rising at dawn to pick berries instead of arguing a point - paired with a grander claim about art's role in lifting up mankind. Related pages include Great.
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- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
The No. 33 represents my own rise in football. It was the number of the first shirt that I wore at Palmeiras, so I feel a real affection for it.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume saga begun in 1980 with publication of 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.'
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.
- Comparatively
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, there hasn't been a significant correlation between gold prices and U.S. elections. Furthermore, history has shown that gold prices tend to fall just before U.S. elections and rise immediately after, and this goes on until the next election.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business owners would be forced to either lay off workers or raise prices to offset the rise in labor costs.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020