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• Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

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• The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

  Paul Krassner

  Humor, Sarcasm, Views

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Passion, Government

  Passage written in 1908 for for 'The Law of Love and the Law of Violence'. "Equality in Liberty and Justice". Book by Antony Flew, p. 89, 2001.

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• With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly reside in the form of this angel. Or could it? Sure, I'm politically incorrect. I admit it; I confess; guilty as charged. I am, Your Honor, the lowest of the species, still wet from the swamp, webbed feet fossilized in the mud. I am a Man!

  Paul Levine

  Angel, Men, Feet

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• Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.

  Isocrates

  Men, Risk, Favors

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Happiness, Stress, Yoga

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• It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

  Richard Rohr

  Water, Grace, Pool

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• Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Depth, Height, Path

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.146

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• The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn't say is what it is I have found. Over the last 21 years, I have found loyalty. You have pulled for me on the court and also in life. I found inspiration. You have willed me to succeed, sometimes even in my lowest moments, and I've found generosity. You have given me your shoulders to stand on to reach for my dreams, dreams I could never have reached without you.

  Andre Agassi

  Thank You, Loyalty, Dream

  Transcript of Andre Agassi Retirement Speech, August, 2006.

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• Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Memories, Moving

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6158, Delphi Classics

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• No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

  Hannah More

  Flattery, Virtue, Court

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.342

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• There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational Love, Heart, Special

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• "Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Expression, Etc

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• Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Men, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2171, Manonmani Publishers

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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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Social, Pariahs, Brutes

  Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Awakened India”

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• "Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste." Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jewels, Law, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1078, Manonmani Publishers

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• This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Doe, Idol Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

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• Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow it to the end of the line. But it appears that fate has more imagination than we do. Just when you think you're in a situation you can't escape from, when you've reached the lowest depths of total desperation, everything changes as fast as a gust of wind, everything's overturned; from one second to the next you find you're living a new life.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Life, Mistake, Believe

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• With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence?

  Tim Ferriss

  Country, Numbers, Carbon Emissions

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• My lowest points was getting injured and pulling out of fights.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Fighting, Fighter

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• Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

  Pierre Charron

  Mind, Hardship, Fortune

  Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”, p.149

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• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

  Paul Newman

  Agreement, Ideas, Oil

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• But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench....must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity.

  Friedrich Engels

  Lying, Dark, Race

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• Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of
  such a place?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Life And Death, Progress

  "Lindbergh Said to Regret Misperceptions Over Jews" by Herber Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 20, 1980.

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• A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

  Anuj

  Men, Appreciate, Creative

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