Lowering Quotes
99 quotes by 93 authors
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's…
— Chinua Achebe
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting…
— Birch Bayh
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will…
— Saint Basil
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
— Josh Billings
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I support lowering the level of legal immigration by a moderate amount at this time. Legal immigration reform must be based upon principles that are…
— William J. Clinton
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Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more…
— Ayn Rand
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It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much…
— Linus Pauling
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There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
— Monica Edwards
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A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?
— Brian Aldiss
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the…
— Thomas Malthus
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Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level…
— Kofi Annan
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the…
— Paul Krugman
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I think that if it is.. has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human…
— Jonathan Duhamel
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Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a…
— Pope Francis
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
— Ludwig von Mises
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
— Florence Nightingale
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear…
— Susan Sontag
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I am a creative artist. I have the ability to radiate. Lifting my arms above me, I soar above the earth. Lowering my arms, I…
— Michael Chekhov
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A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately…
— John F. Kennedy
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