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• You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

  Nick Clegg

  People, Different, Aliens

  "Nick Clegg calls for introduction of 'tycoon tax'". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels decreases overall brain activity, which can impair your thinking, judgment, and self-control and make it very hard for you to feel good. Low thyroid functioning can make it nearly impossible to manage weight effectively. To know your thyroid levels, you need to know these figures: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Free T3 Free T4 Thyroid antibodies (thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies)

  Daniel Amen

  Thinking, Self, Blood

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• In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.

  Polybius

  Children, War, Men

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• A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

  Aristotle

  Men, Hands, Democracy

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• Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Cutting, Thinking

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.232, Best Books on

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• Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

  Joichi Ito

  Media, People, Machines

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• When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.

  Eric Thomas

  Opportunity, Thinking, Effort

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• The Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.

  Michael O'Leary

  Glasses, Broken, Naked

  "Michael O'Leary in his own words" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

  Michael O'Leary

  Europe, Achievement, Ems

  "What happened when Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary went on Twitter for live Q&A? He crash-landed spectacularly" by Simon Calder, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2013.

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• You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

  Laurie Anderson

  Technology, Stuff, Great Things

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• Low self esteem results when the inner critic prevails.

  Catherine Cardinal

  Self Esteem, Results, Critics

  Catherine Cardinal (1998). “The Ten Commandments of Self-Esteem”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Next Day, Care

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• We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Vices, Opinion

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.86, Penguin

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• No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future

  Phil Harding

  Investing, Economic, Clean

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• The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely what is happening. In a low growth economy, the true meaning of resource efficiency in business and in everything we do is essential

  Phil Harding

  Mean, Growth, Essentials

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• To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution: a green revolution. It will transform our economy as surely as the shift from iron to steel, from steam to oil. It will lead us toward a low-carbon future, with cleaner energy and greener growth. With an economy that is built to last - on more sustainable, more stable foundations

  Chris Huhne

  Iron, Oil, Growth

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• Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works

  Charles Hendry

  Our World, Light, Oil

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• Developing low carbon sources of energy supply will enhance our energy security

  Charles Hendry

  Energy, Source, Carbon

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• Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge

  Gordon Brown

  Character, Years, Challenges

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• Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dip, Quiet, Wave

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.292

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• All things move on, good and bad. Never get too high or too low.

  Rick Majerus

  Moving, Good And Bad, All Things

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• A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Organization, People

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

  Chester Barnard

  Leadership, Long, Morality

  Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

  George MacDonald

  God Love, Hell, Theology

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.2626, e-artnow

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• All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

  Banksy

  War, Graffiti, Levels

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