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• When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It was royal-blue and very adult, and I thought, Gosh, this is great! But when my mum said to the assistant, "What's the lowest price you'll take for this?" I nearly died of shame, and wanted to run away.

  Cilla Black

  Running, Clothes, Blue

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• There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Teaching, Buddhism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (Modern Philosophy Series): From World’s Most Influential & Revolutionary Philosopher, the Author of The Antichrist, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science and The Birth of Tragedy”, p.47, e-artnow

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• A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Spiritual, Levels, Matter

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• Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Religious, Civilization

  Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Awakened India”

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• The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is 'alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the beloved: then comes sabahah (infatuation), when the heart is poured out: then gharam (passion), when love never leaves the heart: the nashaq (ardent love), and finally tatayyum.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Passion

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• Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest man whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give always. Give the last bit of bread you have even if you are starving. You will be free in a moment if you starve yourself to death by giving to another. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Hands, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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• But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Police

  "Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records".

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• Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

  Alan Watts

  Buddhist, Nonsense, Notes

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• Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It is non-confrontational, even respectful, in circumventing the rocks in a stream. It makes room for everything that enters its pools. It accommodates by assuming the shape of any vessel it is poured into. And it is humble, seeking always the lowest level. Yet along with - or rather because of these adaptive, yielding properties, it is ultimately irresistible; it carves canyons out of stone.

  Huston Smith

  Morning, Humble, Humility

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• The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it... This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

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• The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.

  Christopher Augustine Reynolds

  Humility, Ears, Corn

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• Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

  Octavio Paz

  Lying, Adventure, Men

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• Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

  Alexander Whyte

  Prayer, Impossible, Kind

  Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.119, Regent College Publishing

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• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Zhuangzi (1927). “Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzŭ”

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• Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in order to discuss them. The Mole effect is to substitute slogans and superficial opinion for considered individual thought. And the opinion is that of the lowest common denominator of the group.

  Murray Rothbard

  Children, Educational, Order

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• Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

  Philip James Bailey

  Humility, Virtue, Lowliness

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.93

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• Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

  Shawn Johnson

  Strong, Gymnastics, Broke

  "Gymnastic Gold: Interview with Shawn Johnson and Her Mom, Teri". Interview by Ilyssa Panitz, www.parents.com.

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• Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

  Nick Hornby

  Sports, Football, Games

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• Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

  E. B. White

  Numbers, People, Courtesy

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.93, Cornell University Press

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• The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, America

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.378, Ballantine Books

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• The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a wonder to me that they survived it and have not only maintained their identity, but are actually growing stronger in some ways. The situation is still very bad, especially in certain geographical areas, but there are more Indians going to school, more Indians becoming professional people, more Indians assuming full responsibility in our society. We have a long way to go, but we're making great strides.

  N. Scott Momaday

  School, Responsibility, Growing Stronger

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• Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Animal, Men, Differences

  Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1906). “The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester”

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• When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

  Ice T

  Fruit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Art, Fire, Sand

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