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• We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

  Sophocles

  Running, Evil, Goal

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.410

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• Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

  Sophocles

  Home, Men, Pay The Price

  Sophocles (2017). “Antigone”, p.10, Youcanprint

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• The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.

  Austin O'Malley

  Son, Doors, Heaven

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• I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

  Edwin Land

  Education, Determination, Men

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• There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.

  James Martineau

  Christian, Power, Baptized In

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 456), 1895.

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• I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Book, Phones, Expectations

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.

  Nick Hanauer

  Jobs, Wages, Scams

  Source: gawker.com

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• The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

  Nick Hanauer

  Law, Ideas, Fundamentals

  Source: gawker.com

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• Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

  James Rosenquist

  Space, Ceilings, Painting

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• When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

  Lena Dunham

  Persons, Budgets

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• The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.

  Carl Honore

  Space, Princeton University, Office

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

  Jane Chen

  Baby, Years, Risk

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• You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

  John Kirwan

  Struggle, Ill, Mentally Ill

  John Kirwan, Margie Thomson (2011). “All Blacks Don't Cry: A Story of Hope”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson

  Sports, Writing, Sea

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson (2010). “Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir”, p.190, NewSouth Books

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

  Hans Arp

  Dark, Artist, Light

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• The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

  Allan Bloom

  Self, Effectiveness, Expectations

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 285, 1990.

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• One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Wrinkles, Ideas

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• Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Support, Useless, Shows

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.134

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• I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.

  Clifford Stoll

  Dream, Children, Book

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• Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

  John Milton

  God, Heart, Dark

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.9, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

  John Milton

  Sound, Rising, Sullen

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 73

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• Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

  John Milton

  Night, Rose, Darkness

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1809). “The poetical works of John Milton: from the text of Doctor Newton with the life of the author”, p.325

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• The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

  John Milton

  Clouds, Elements, Landscape

  John Milton (1832). “Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]”, p.37

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• The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Ends

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 149, 1982.

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