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• A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Ideas

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Vegetables, Ice

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• The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

  Michelangelo

  Men, Missing, Risk

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• I want to feel better. My wife says she likes me not drinking, not so many highs, so many lows, I don't lose temper, I'm more patient.

  Mike Bryan

  Drinking, Feel Better, Wife

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• Now I find that in a state of pure obedience the mind learns contentment in appearing weak and foolish to that wisdom which is of the world; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place and are rightly exercised under the cross will find nourishment.

  John Woolman

  Mind, Contentment, World

  "The Journal of John Woolman".

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• Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.

  Herbert von Karajan

  Aim

  "Die 7 Geheimnisse der Dirigenten-Legende". Bild.de, April 4, 2008.

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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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• How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

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• Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

  Matt Gonzalez

  School, Kids, Opportunity

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• When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

  George Soros

  Gold, Investing, Moments

  "Soros and Paulson move in opposite directions as gold declines" by Tom Bawden, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2011.

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• Say I Want to Feel Good when youre Tempted to Indulge in Low-Energy Thoughts

  Wayne Dyer

  Indulge In, Feel Good, Energy

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.275, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Risk

  Alan Greenspan's speech at the Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. December 5, 1996.

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• With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Strong, Retail, Unemployment

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• Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.

  David Malouf

  Animal, Skins, Unseen

  David Malouf (2011). “The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World”, p.87, Black Inc.

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• Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

  Aristotle

  Fashion, Nature, Lying

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• Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Men, Enemy, Human Nature

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Vegetables, Orange, Meditation

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.88, New York Review of Books

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• I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Apples, Firsts, Cost

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• Here at home, ... while the most likely scenario remains solid growth and low inflation -- subject to the usual ups and downs -- certain sectors have been impacted by the crisis, some because of increased imports and others because of decreased exports. Moreover, problems in the global economy do constitute a risk to all our overall economic well-being.

  Robert Rubin

  Home, Risk, Growth

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• The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.

  Bud Selig

  Sports, Instant Replay, Appetite

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• DEMAND, PURCHASE & USE LOW CARBON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. MAKE LOW CARBON SEXY!

  Christiana Figueres

  Sexy, Use, Demand

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• So many comics have such low self-esteem.

  Debra Wilson

  Self Esteem, Self, Low Self Esteem

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• There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

  Leo Hindery

  Mcdonalds, Lobbying, Interest

  "Former CEO: There Is No One Representing Low-Wage Workers". HuffPost Live Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2014.

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• Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

  DeWitt Bodeen

  Lying, Fog, Doe

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• I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

  David Neeleman

  Quality, Continuing, Carrier

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