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See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
Samuel Rutherford
Buy
You
Field
Think
Lying
Way
Security
Easy
Purchase
See
Steep
Dead
Make
Glory
Sell
Salvation
Where
Ascent
Eternal
Many
Slain
Pearl
I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
Anatoli Boukreev
Before
Out
Run
Possibly
Slowly
Seemed
Could
Concerned
Return
Said
Climber
Camp
Scott
Going
Oxygen
Ascent
Descending
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
Arthur Keith
Man
Christianity
Evolutionary
Find
Laws
Shall
Civilization
Like
Anti
Conditions
Effects
Stages
Ascent
Which
Against
Works
Earlier
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
Bayard Taylor
Me
Impossible
Christ
Before
Difficult
Deity
Had
Conceive
Footsteps
Up
Very
Mount
Walked
Heat
Human
Form
Ascent
Human Form
Found
Utterly
The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking.
Carol Loomis
Speed
Been
Trajectory
Ascent
Breathtaking
The first ascent of Everest came at a time when humanity needed relief from two world wars. It was a unifying and inspiring event, signifying the drive to reach our greatest potential.
Conrad Anker
Time
Humanity
World
Drive
First
Our
Relief
Potential
Inspiring
Reach
Greatest
Came
Ascent
Unifying
Wars
Event
Everest
Two
Needed
World Wars
At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any.
George Grey
Interior
Impossible
Several
Would
Loose
Always
Been
Covered
Rocks
Stock
Any
Stores
Ascent
Places
Landed
Large
Found
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
James Henry Breasted
Life
Time
Knowledge
First
Universe
Our
Evolution
Carries
Case
Civilization
Attained
Had
Highest
Advent
Globe
First Time
Any
Represents
Ascent
Which
Anywhere
Processes
Far
Us
There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension.
Richard Armitage
Will
Power
Recognition
Out
About
New
Question
Ascent
China
Growing
Professor Tite has played a big role in the Selecao's ascent. He's a brilliant coach, with a unique way of working, but he's also a marvellous person. He makes everyone feel at ease.
Roberto Firmino
Brilliant
Big
Everyone
Way
Ease
Marvellous
He
Feel
Also
Makes
Role
Person
Ascent
Coach
Working
Unique
Professor
Played
Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Broken
Sometimes
Rugged
Long
Before
Stage
Sliding
Carpet
Stationary
Unable
Remains
He
Step
Step Forward
Taking
Steps
Smoothly
Often
Form
Ascent
Mankind
Turned
Next
Forward
Even
Gaps
Round
Resolution
As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.
Steven Levy
Technology
Battery
Tries
Weight
Maintain
Check
Dead
Altitude
Ascent
Kept
We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
Ted Cruz
Conservative
Opportunity
Focus
Ladder
Easing
Economic
Policy
Domestic
Domestic Policy
Up
Articulate
Ascent
Means
Laser
Need
What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
Ted Cruz
Opportunity
Focus
Ladder
Every
Conservatism
Easing
About
Economic
Like
Policy
Talking
Been
Years
Up
Ascent
Should
Means
Many
Laser
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.
Tim Cope
Me
Big
Imagination
Meeting
Summit
Impact
Had
Tim
His
Big Impact
Australian
Author
Ascent
Sea
Captured
Everest
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