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  • If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

    Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.215, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • At my lowest moments, I think of people who come to shows. I still get very sad and sometimes I feel like I have no friends, but when that happens now, I'll think of people whose names or faces I don't know - they're my friends and they love me. I've got them. It really does save me. I still feel awkward, but that's the one thing I can grab onto at my lowest points.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.

    Dream   Thinking   People  
    "RJ-11". Nicholas Negroponte's letter to WIRED Ventures Ltd., web.media.mit.edu. April 1, 1998.
  • Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

    Lowest   Highest  
    "Carmina" by Horace, III. 1. 14,
  • 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.

    Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937
  • The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1076, Delphi Classics
  • Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper.

    Thinking   Pieces   Paper  
    "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 3". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. May 30, 2006.
  • Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures.

  • When I'm on the phone with a listener or I meet someone one-on-one, and they're on the lowest rung of hell and they open up, I realize, hey, this isn't about being a DJ anymore. When you're with people who are going through a difficult part of life, that's sacred space. That's better than any trophy or meeting a rock star.

    People   Realizing   Hell  
    "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.chicagotribune.com. February 23, 2014.
  • Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

    Ambition   Blood   Two  
  • Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

    Peace   Justice   Littles  
    Adam Smith, comte Germain Garnier, Dugald Stewart (1835). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.96
  • As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

    Climate   Cost   Way  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.

    Work   Design   Doe  
    "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers". Book by F.W. Taylor, New York, Foreword, 1911.
  • I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.

    Depression   Jesus   Pain  
    "Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series".
  • Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

  • The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.

    Animal   Men   Diversity  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2154, Manonmani Publishers
  • Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

    Zhuangzi (1927). “Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzŭ”
  • I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

    Thinking   Mind   Orbit  
  • They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

    Sarcasm   Form   China  
  • The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

    Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.30, Perry Brass
  • It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” – Nick “Guard your back, Nick. It’s the one you don’t see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It’s when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.” – Kyrian

    Betrayal   Moving   Enemy  
  • Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

    Mother   Baby   Labels  
  • The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

    Blessing   Mind   Next  
  • Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

    Iceland   Spain   World  
    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • Most Chinese filmmakers grew up watching television; they watched films on television, not in cinemas. The scope of their vision is not big enough, they're not yet detail-oriented enough. You have to watch films in cinemas for years to understand the depth and scope of vision needed in filmmaking. Directors in China usually come from an academic background; they graduate as film directors. Whereas the directors from Hong Kong learn their trade on sets, beginning at the lowest rung.

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

  • You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.

  • Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

    Patience   Stars   Lying  
    Margaret Fuller (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”
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