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• There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Would Be, Cost

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sight, Ohio, Iron

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.360, Library of America

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• So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Selfish, Mistake, Men

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are fluttering low:
  Square your shoulders, lift your pack
  And leave your friends and go.
  O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
  In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Night, Fire

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• The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine.

  Steven Pinker

  Fear, Years, Brain

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Shoes, Clothes

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• The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Patriotic, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything, if what we do stand for is under attack and we say nothing? There is nothing to be ashamed of here except to allow a radical and recessive group of people to bully and intimidate our mothers and sisters and daughters for exercising their right of choice.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  "Mark Ruffalo defends reproductive rights, talks about his mother’s illegal" by Katie Mcdonough, www.salon.com. August 19, 2013.

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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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• This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Flames, Pro Life

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1971). “Something beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta”, HarperCollins

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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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• I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.

  Alys Fowler

  Summer, Goodbye, Morning

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• I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.

  Notah Begay III

  Golf, Secret, I Realized

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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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• Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment.

  Greg Norman

  Basketball, Art, Hard Work

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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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• Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Self, Temptation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Yes And No, Answers

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• Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

  Gene Green

  Communication, College, America

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• Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
  All soft and still and fair;
  The solemn hour of midnight
  Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,
  
  But most where trees are sending
  Their breezy boughs on high,
  Or stooping low are lending
  A shelter from the sky.
  
  And there in those wild bowers
  A lovely form is laid;
  Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
  Wave gently round her head.

  Emily Bronte

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  Emily Bronte, “Moonlight, Summer Moonlight”

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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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