Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.
Helen Fisher
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The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
Edward Burnett Tylor
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Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
Jack Dempsey
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Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
Ada Yonath
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama
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You do wonder - when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are struggling to draw breath and every limb aches - why do I do this?
Jimmy Chin
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It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.
John Niven
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Fighting in England, for me, is the height of my career. It really is.
Michael Bisping
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I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.
Toni Braxton
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People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.
Ross Kemp
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Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
Christian Louboutin
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French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.
Brigitte Bardot
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I know there are a lot of tall, beautiful actresses like Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman who are my height, but they're still half the size of me!
Allison Janney
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I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything - height, flights - I had no idea why.
Shari Arison
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No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.
Kevin Kwan
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There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages.
Henry Beard
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.
Alanna Ubach
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When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.
Rebecca Hall
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I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.
Helen Vendler
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To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
Edward Gorey
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