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• It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Emotional

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• This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Iron, Mind

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• The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Brother, Philosophy, Philosopher

  Thomas Carlyle (1850). “Past and Present: Chartism and Sartor Resartus”

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• The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

  William Shenstone

  Ice, People, Obscurity

  William Shenstone (1927). “Men & Manners”

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• He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Dust, Giving

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.6

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• Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

  Margaret Fuller

  Art, Gardening, Doe

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• ...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.

  Henry Fielding

  Wise, Hero, Food

  Henry Fielding (1844). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: With the Life of the Author : in Two Volumes”, p.443

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• Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Knowing, Experience, Way

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• We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Jobs, Children

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.227, Best Books on

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• God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Pride, Men, Oneness

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1869). “Among the Hills, and Other Poems”, p.73

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• Love can climb the highest mountain or sink to the lowest depth

  Jon Jones

  Love, Mountain, Depth

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• We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Years, Quality

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens.

  George Mason

  Selfish, Attachment, Order

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• 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.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Dream, Thinking, People

  "RJ-11". Nicholas Negroponte's letter to WIRED Ventures Ltd., web.media.mit.edu. April 1, 1998.

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• The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

  Ed McMahon

  Nature, Smart, Successful

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• During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.

  Simone Weil

  Girl, Spiritual, Eye

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil. Translated by R. Rees, "Morality and literature," p. 164, 1968.

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• Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

  Randall Jarrell

  Men, Shadow, Sun

  1954 Pictures from an Institution, pt.5, ch.9.

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• I read that yesterday, the Mexican peso hit its lowest point since March of 2009. In fact, things got so bad, it was seen leaving a bar with the American dollar.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Money, Yesterday, Mexican

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• Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

  Austin O'Malley

  Soul, Gold, Settling

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• If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Children, Father, Blessed

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.83

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• The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Rejection, Leaving, Soul

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.

  Terence Winter

  Fighting, Games, Office

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• There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative.  Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Excess, Safe

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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

  Disappointed, Ifs, Highest

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

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• All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Feet, Broken, Parent

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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