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Quote:Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.[George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.[Confucius]

Quote:But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.[Abraham Lincoln]

Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson]

Quote:Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.[Kahlil Gibran]

Quote:Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. [Sir Francis Bacon]

Quote:The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. [Confucius]

Quote:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. [Confucius]

Quote:My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. [Albert Einstein]



Definitions of: superior

Definition: More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

Definition: Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.

Definition: Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery.

Definition: Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to.

Definition: More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.

Definition: Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.

Definition: Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.

Definition: Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle.

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