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True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter. — Richard Hamming
In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases… — Sonny Perdue
I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower. — Gypsy Rose Lee
Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. — George Santayana
As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed… — Wayne Dyer
Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings,… — Swami Vivekananda
Supplements are very important, especially a multiple vitamin. The American Medical Association now says we should take one. And fish oil because it has omega… — Daniel Amen
Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function. — Daniel Amen
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst,… — Charles Spurgeon
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side… — Thomas Adams
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes… — Max Wertheimer
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that… — Charles Horton Cooley
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many… — Ralph Washington Sockman
Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. — Lydia M. Child
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act… — Barack Obama
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old… — Benjamin Franklin
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain

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