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• If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.

  William Gerhardie

  Appreciation, Book, Reading

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• I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.

  Steve Harvey

  Mom, Mother, Couple

  "Steve Harvey tells moviegoers how to "Think Like a Man"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Innocent Man, Inequality

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.443

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• Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.

  John C. Bogle

  Sweat, Income, Gains

  Source: business.time.com

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• This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Iron, Mind

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• The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Brother, Philosophy, Philosopher

  Thomas Carlyle (1850). “Past and Present: Chartism and Sartor Resartus”

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• The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

  Ed McMahon

  Nature, Smart, Successful

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• Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

  Margaret Fuller

  Art, Gardening, Doe

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• The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

  William Shenstone

  Ice, People, Obscurity

  William Shenstone (1927). “Men & Manners”

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• If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Humble, Race

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the whole! The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each must live in all and by all. Who will not work neither shall he eat. So God has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and bear each other's burdens.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Men, Envy, Bears

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• It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Emotional

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• Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Morning, Spring, Plant Life

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Cutting, Years, People

  "Austan Goolsbee: Eric Cantor Misrepresenting Obama’s Economic Policies" by Bonnie Kavoussi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

  Francois Rabelais

  Humility, Long, Lasts

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• In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Progress, Population

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Games, Criticism, Hierarchy

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Disappear Completely, Hatred

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• Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Atheism, Rivals

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• The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.

  Henry Rollins

  Stress, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
  But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
  We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
  Without a fear of evil yet to come.

  Ovid

  Prayer, Future, Feet

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• The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.

  Dorothy Day

  Brother, Heart, Passion

  "Loaves and Fishes". Book by Dorothy Day, 1963.

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• When you are at your lowest in life, no matter where you're at, you have to keep on going. You can't quit. You can't let it break you. You have to keep going on because life keeps going on and you have to keep going if you want to be the person you want to be.

  La'el Collins

  Want, Matter, Quitting

  "La'el Collins Q&A: Cowboys Rookie on Murder Investigation and Draft Plummet". Interview with Bleacher Report, bleacherreport.com.

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• That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Girl, Money

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Framley Parsonage”, p.247, Booklassic

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