Lowest Quotes - Page 18

• The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Cutting, Years, People

  "Austan Goolsbee: Eric Cantor Misrepresenting Obama’s Economic Policies" by Bonnie Kavoussi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Freedom, Men, Law

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• Under my plan, 85 percent of America will pay no tax or have a flat tax at our lowest rate of 15 percent.

  John McCain

  America, Pay, Flat Tax

  "McCain offers 'new fiscal conservatism' with tax plan" by Douglas S. Wood, www.cnn.com. January 11, 2000.

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• All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

  Francois Rabelais

  Humility, Long, Lasts

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• You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Disappear Completely, Hatred

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• Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Atheism, Rivals

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• The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.

  Henry Rollins

  Stress, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life. Now, that's crazy. And if you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or whomever around their office. On average. And so I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax. I think the rest of the country should be paying less.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Progress, Population

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
  But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
  We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
  Without a fear of evil yet to come.

  Ovid

  Prayer, Future, Feet

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• Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Games, Criticism, Hierarchy

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Girl, Money

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Framley Parsonage”, p.247, Booklassic

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• There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Miracle, Heaven

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• The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Foundation, Stones, Structure

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• 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.

  Henry R. Towne

  Work, Design, Doe

  "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers". Book by F.W. Taylor, New York, Foreword, 1911.

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• The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.

  Mel Brooks

  Appreciation, Moving, Fall

  "Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 13, 2012.

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• There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Acceptance, Men, England

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• Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Important, Doe

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.83, University of Georgia Press

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• A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Drinking, Wine, Character

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• Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful and a lot of movies that studios hold up as examples and you go, 'My God, that isn't even a story. It isn't even two acts. It's eight set pieces drawn out with slow motion.' The difficulty for me was that you had to hope that people were interested in this kind of a story.

  David Fincher

  Successful, Eight, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Firsts, Film, Paid

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Animal, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

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• In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Speak Less, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.228

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

  Perry Brass

  Kindness, Form, Barbarism

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.30, Perry Brass

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