Lower Quotes

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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have… — Franz Grillparzer
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi
There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we… — Roger Corman
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good. — Don Van Vliet
If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day — Molly Ivins
We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are… — Dada Vaswani
Every time I started a business and the people told me I was an idiot, I ended up making a lot of money. Si Redd… — Bob Davids
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way… — Graham Swift
I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who… — James A. Michener
When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being is pulled towards… — Rajneesh
The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the… — Swami Vivekananda
We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language. — Ted E. Brewerton
The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on… — Chinua Achebe
The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to… — Karl Marx
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! — Jules Verne
Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to… — John Holdren
We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves. — Paul Washer
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. — George Eliot
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price… — David Ricardo
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase… — David Ricardo

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