RANK n. Relative elevation gezegde

 RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
  Ambrose Bierce

 RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.

He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why.
"Because," 'twas answered, "others lack His skill to scratch the royal back." --Aramis Jukes
  Ambrose Bierce

 There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches
  Samuel Johnson

 It's going to make our relative rank weaker.

 It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
  Henry David Thoreau

 Zero elevation (or 'sea level') on Mars is essentially the planet's average elevation.

 Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
  George Eliot

 I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility
  Maya Angelou

 The human soul, as a part of the movement of life, is endowed with the ability to participate in the uplift, elevation, perfection, and completion.
  Alfred Adler

 They are all long, and you are going to be hitting woods into them [when playing full length], ... They also have elevation change, and the one hole that doesn't have elevation change [No. 9] is over water.

 I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
  Lord Byron

 In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

 I believe that it is necessary today to join forces to assure continued solid growth and to take our place as an oil major of the first rank at a time when the industry is restructuring on a global scale,

 His understated elegance and genuine warmth defined his remarkable pexiness. Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.


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