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• Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.

  Bhartrhari

  Rain, Clouds, People

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• It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

  Herodotus

  Pride, Tree, Suffering

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• There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Thought Provoking, Low Income

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• An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. All the evidence shows that people who do not drive, do not fly on planes, do shop locally, do grow their own food, and do get to know other members of their community have a much higher quality of life than their compatriots who still persist in making the ultimate sacrifice of wasting their lives commuting to work in cars.

  Mark Lynas

  Sacrifice, Views, People

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• Kenneth Cooper's research shows that low to moderate intensity exercise is just as beneficial as high-intensity exercise - but without the rigorous wear and tear on the system.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Motivational, Loss, Exercise

  Ann Louise Gittleman (2016). “The New Fat Flush Plan”, p.133, McGraw Hill Professional

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• They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam.
  All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo
  With the ugly Kardashian...
  Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.

  Eminem

  Sorry, Powerful, Rap

  Song: Berzerk

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• Bass! How low can you go?
  Death row...what a brother know.
  Once again, back is the incredible,
  The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!"
  Public Enemy Number One.
  Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb.
  Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
  But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.

  Chuck D

  Brother, Rap, Animal

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• Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

  George W. Bush

  Expectations, Presidential, Conservative

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• The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Song, Character, Men

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• To Time it never seems that he is brave
  To set himself against the peaks of snow
  To lay them level with the running wave,
  Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
  But only grave, contemplative and grave.

  Robert Frost

  Running, Lying, Snow

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fear, Ears, Whispering

  'Death stands above me' (1853)

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• The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Peace, Fear, Military

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• All the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity.

  Ken Wilber

  Past, Reality, Opposites

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

  Grace Napolitano

  Retirement, Income, Roles

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• The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Happiness, Expectations, Secret

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• Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.

  Rachel Zoe

  Sexy, Hips, Drapes

  "Rachel Zoe's Best Fashion Moments" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

  Susan Bordo

  Cancer, Men, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

  William Langewiesche

  Airplane, Simple, Hunting

  William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon

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• A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

  Sophocles

  Humans, Lifts, Lays

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• Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Math, Errors, America

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.171, Random House

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• Don’t get high off praises, and don’t get too low on critiques.

  Janelle Monae

  Getting High, Praise, Critique

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• At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.

  Rajiv Joseph

  Path, Fruit, Firsts

  Rajiv Joseph (2010). “Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays”, p.155, Soft Skull Press

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• Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.

  Warren Buffett

  Apples, Assets, Gravity

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• We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

  Kevin Smith

  Dirty, Steady

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• Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Wind, Suffering, Trying

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