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• The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

  Conrad Black

  Envy, Soul, Mind

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• I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

  Anita Loos

  Style, Gowns, Sawdust

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• Writing is a deeply immersive experience.  When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice.  I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.

  Monica Ali

  Writing, Escaping, Boredom

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• The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Church Today, Pitching

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• Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Civilization, Degrees, Fields

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• Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Records, Strings, Heard

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics … restricted by poverty in their own country run riot in this … as long as we are overwhelmed with Irish immigrants, so long will the evil abound.

  John Pintard

  Running, Country, Class

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• Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.

  Douglas Conant

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.

  Ron Willingham

  Jobs, Integrity, Divorce

  Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business

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• I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Home, Night, Keys

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• Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

  Israel Putnam

  Military, War, Eye

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• Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.

  Neal Boortz

  Jobs, Skills, Greed

  Attributed to Neal Boortz in "Quotes, Jokes & Anecdotes", edited by Gerard O'Boyle, 2012.

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• Dedicate your life to a cause that inspires you and also greatly serves others. Master plan your life. If you don't fill your day with high priorities, it will automatically become filled with low priorities.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Inspirational, Priorities, Inspire

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• Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
  And the winter winds are wearily sighing:
  Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,
  And tread softly and speak low,
  For the old year lies a-dying.
  Old year you must not die;
  You came to us so readily,
  You lived with us so steadily,
  Old year you shall not die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Winter, Church Bells

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.348, Delphi Classics

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• Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

  George Soros

  Years, Risk, Management

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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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• The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Inspiring, Technology, Oil

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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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• Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

  Ellen Burstyn

  Depressing, Play, Drug

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• [A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.

  George Will

  Emotional, Years, Roles

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• Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. The centerpiece might be tax reform, both corporate and individual. It is needed, popular and doable. Then go for the low-hanging fruit enjoying wide bipartisan support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas exports, most especially to Eastern Europe. One could then add border security, energy deregulation and health-care reform that repeals the more onerous Obamacare mandates.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Winning, Obamacare, White

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• It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Mean, Adversity, Love Is

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• Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It's always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it's always something pure, high and clean.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Lying, White

  "The Unfathomably Weird Case of Rachel Doležal" by Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. June 16, 2015.

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• There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.

  Ajay Devgan

  Two, Cost, Stuff

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