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• Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Drinking, Golf, Bars

  Jimmy Demaret (1954). “My Partner, Ben Hogan”, New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company

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• Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

  Don DeLillo

  Fascination, Fame, Secrecy

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Friendship, Integrity, Men

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1865). “Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church: Vol. 1”, p.464

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• The rain is plentious but, by God's decree,
  Only a third is meant for you and me;
  Two-thirds are taken by the growing things
  Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings:
  Nor does it mathematically fall
  With social equity on one and all.
  The population's habit is to grow
  In every region where the water's low:
  Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's,
  And well-run rivers have to change their plans.

  A. P. Herbert

  Running, Rain, Fall

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• What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Order

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• When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Couple, Moving

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• There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Lying, Men, Doe

  Thomas Lansing Masson (1929). “Ascensions”

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• The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Leadership, Motivation, Mean

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• Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

  Confucius

  Women, Distance, Hands

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

  Timothy Leary

  Emotional, Years, Fiction

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• It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain.

  Thomas Dreier

  Love, Strong, Revenge

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• I always say that I can help someone who can already compose, but if they can't, I can't help them. I can advise on technical issues, of course, like how low the piccolo can go, but otherwise what's important is not wisdom but enthusiasm.

  George Benjamin

  Issues, Important, Enthusiasm

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy.

  John Henry Newman

  Blessed, Mean, Clouds

  John Henry Newman, Trevor Lipscombe (2012). “Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert”, p.351, Ignatius Press

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• In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Running, Two, Pirate

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• Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Giving Up

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• In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Writing, Reality

  "The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley".

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• I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Running, Real

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• In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

  Bob Taft

  Jobs, Connections, Cost

  "The Jobs Agenda". Bob Taft's State of the State Address, 2004.

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• For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Strong, Past, Average

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• Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

  Frank Knight

  Philosophy, Moving, Differences

  Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.180, Transaction Publishers

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• A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

  Barack Obama

  Growth, Energy, Clean

  "US power sector to cut carbon emissions by 30% by 2030". "AM", www.abc.net.au. June 3, 2014.

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• Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

  Thomas Sowell

  Success, Failure, Science

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dark, Power, Night

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

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• I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

  Laurie David

  Grateful, School, Kids

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• It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

  Gary Oldman

  Self Esteem, Recovery, Pride

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