Lowest Quotes - Page 8

• Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Race, Differences

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• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  Fanny Kemble

  Successful, Government, Order

  Fanny Kemble (1879). “Records of a Girlhood”

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• Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Hero, Ignorance, Long

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution. From Unpublished Sources”, p.455

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• Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Army, Boys

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• Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.

  W. Bruce Cameron

  Funny, Science, Brain

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• The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

  Saint Augustine

  Passion, Men, Mind

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• The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

  Dick Cheney

  Lying, Two, Oil

  Dick Cheney's speech at the Autumn lunch of the London Institute of Petroleum, 1999.

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• To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.

  Georges Cuvier

  Passion, Men, Civilization

  "Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles depuis 1789, et sur leur état actuel". Book edited by Georges Cuvier (translated), 1810.

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• The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ideas, Giving, Interesting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

  David Hilbert

  Levels, Tables, Multiplication

  "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.

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• I always go to the lowest common denominator for that ingredient. So if I think squash, I try to think what it means to me -- and if it doesn't mean anything to me, I'm not gonna do well when I cook it. So [squash] means to me: fall, maple syrup, cinnamon, and things just come into your head so you can narrow the vortex and make it a bit smaller and you go with something because there's no time.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fall, Mean, Thinking

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• It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

  Alesha Dixon

  Thinking, Done, Lowest Point

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• It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Spiritual, Adventure, Dark

  Jason Augustus Newcomb, Lon Milo Duquette (2004). “The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power”, p.14, Weiser Books

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• Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

  Melissa Farley

  Race, Class, Hierarchy

  "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women". Transcultural Psychiatry 42, article co-written with J. Lynne and A. Cotton, 2005.

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• In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Technology, Labor Force

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.102, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.

  Robert Kuttner

  Average, Waiting, Citizens

  Robert Kuttner (1984). “The economic illusion: false choices between prosperity and social justice”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Religious, People, Doctrine

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 511, 2005.

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• The U.S. unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in nearly seven years. The job sector that has seen the most growth is in the field of Republican presidential candidates.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, Years, Presidential

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• Democrats in state legislatures are at their lowest level since the 1920s. President Obama has a can't-miss strategy to save the party in 2016. He's leaving.

  Craig Ferguson

  Party, Missing, Leaving

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• God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

  Horace

  God, Humble, Proud

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• There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Miracle, Heaven

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• As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Special, Doe

  Charles Darwin (1875). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.144

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• After starting a blood feud with Fox News, something no Republican presidential candidate has dared to do before, [Donald] Trump seems to have successfully undermine the network in the eyes of its core audience with perception of the Fox News brand among Republican adults hitting its lowest point in three years according to a new YouGov survey.

  Chris Hayes

  Eye, Blood, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.

  Bradford Cox

  Self Esteem, Reality, Faces

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb.

  Anne Sweeney

  Morning, College, America

  Source: www.elle.com

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