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There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to… — Phillips Brooks
Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like… — Laozi
The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when… — Bill James
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write, — Martin Amis
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would… — Thucydides
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years… — John F. Kennedy
In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income… — John F. Kennedy
Although I am good at enumerating my fatherâ€™s flaws, itâ€™s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because… — Alison Bechdel
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran
There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here — Daniel Libeskind
If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money… — Jeffrey Sachs
THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges… — William Carlos Williams
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.… — George Carlin
That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people… — Stephen Samuel Wise
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values… — Margaret Bondfield
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people,… — Laozi
By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and… — Amory Lovins
Sex according to Sangarakshita is rooted in the Lower Evolution and does not, in his experience, enhance communication between individuals. And sexual relationships, encouraging as… — Sangharakshita
The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is… — Rajneesh

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