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«No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least of all a Calvinist»
Author: Cardinal Caraffa
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Tolerance
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Calvinist, heretic, least of all, lower, showing, tolerance
«Only the mature spirit lives with the proud knowledge that he is a little lower than the angels rather than a little higher than the apes»
Author: Dorothy Carnegie
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aped, apes, aping, in low spirits, lower, low spirits, mature, The Angels
«The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.»
Author: W. Edwards Deming
(Consultant, Educator, Stastistician)
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costs, low-cost, lower, low quality, Relationships, term
«There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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Fashion
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A level, conformist, conformists, cowardice, fashionable, lower
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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ages, all ages, conversion, conversions, Conversion of, danger, degrading, drags, fascination, fascinations, high-minded, high and low, high level, incapable, level, lower, lowering, lowers, offered, rising
«No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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cloths, commonly, estimation, estimations, fashionable, lower, patch, patched
«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 the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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Bureaucracies, circle, deceived, detail, entrust, entrusting, entrusts, general knowledge, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, levels, low-level, lower, mutually, The General
«So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.»
«People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.»
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