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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below… — Barbara Tuchman
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk
Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life… — Kadmi Cohen
The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at… — John L. Phillips
Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to… — Simone Weil
The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see… — Frederick Lenz
We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by… — Nicholas Stern
My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers -… — Steve Sabol
We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the… — Edward Burnett Tylor
My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and… — Veronica Webb
The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The… — Frederick Lenz
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. — Vance Havner
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see,… — Norman Lindsay
There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure. — Gina McCarthy
If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't… — Holly Madison
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is… — David Whyte
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity… — George Mason
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward… — Nancy Kress
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. — Jules de Goncourt

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