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(Sarcasm is not the lowest form of wit, It is an art form dismissed by those too stupid to master it)

Sean Francis

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In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

Goethe

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12 years ago

The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction.

Chinese

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When the highest type of men hear Tao,They diligently practice it.When the average type of men hear Tao,They half believe in it.When the lowest type of men hear Tao,They laugh heartily at it.Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

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13 years ago

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.

Jim Morrison

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You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

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13 years ago

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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13 years ago

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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13 years ago

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

Kahlil Gibran

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14 years ago

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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14 years ago

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.

Lao Tzu

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14 years ago

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Publilius Syrus

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14 years ago

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

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14 years ago

Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now

Clive Staples Lewis

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14 years ago

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford

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14 years ago

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Vaclav Havel

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14 years ago

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.

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14 years ago

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

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14 years ago

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang-tzu

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14 years ago

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