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I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.
Mary Karr
Sense
Think
State
Back
Virtue
Way
Out
Kind
Would
Tortured
Some
Exalted
Idea
Liked
Always
Been
Antiquated
Than
Artist
Being
Senses
Less
No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.
Mother Angelica
God
Knowledge
Angel
Exalted
Perfect
Most
Him
Understand
Even
Creature
Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
Pankaj Mishra
Great
Trouble
First
White
Living
Late
Tried
Admired
Exalted
Russian
Postwar
Writers
Had
Most
Foreign
Came
Were
Male
Cultural
Very
American
Where
Available
Milieu
American Writers
Widely
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
Samuel Butler
Humble
Long
Meek
See
Exalted
Remain
Much
Really
Use
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Ambition
Aim
Favour
Exalted
Him
His
Itself
Cured
Office
Cannot
Riches
Fortune
Satisfy
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Steven Pinker
Confusion
Endeavor
Believe
Humanities
Think
Kind
Exalted
Higher
Leads
Intellectuals
Human
Artists
Arts
Form
Themselves
Elite
A name is so important in biblical settings that Scripture frequently mentions God Himself changing someone's name to reflect a new reality. Abram, which means 'exalted father,' was changed to Abraham, meaning 'father of a multitude.'
Tony Evans
God
Bible
Reality
Father
Important
Reflect
Changed
Changing
Settings
Exalted
Someone
Abraham
New
Name
Himself
Frequently
Which
Scripture
Meaning
Means
Multitude
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
Wendell Mayes
Man
World
Smart
Own
Nothing
Our
Once
Some
Exalted
Throne
Smart Man
Most
Said
Arse
Seated
Russia has taken advantage of its exalted status among right-wing extremists to expand its influence throughout Europe.
Asha Rangappa
Extremists
Right-Wing
Status
Exalted
Russia
Throughout
Taken
Advantage
Expand
Influence
Europe
Among
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