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Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well. -- Ernest Sosa
The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country. -- Kenneth Clarke
The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media. -- Vince McMahon
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs. -- Alex Berenson
As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue. -- David Hunt
Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices. -- James Surowiecki
I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores. -- Joss Whedon
Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved. -- Mitt Romney
Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down. -- Jack Kemp
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. -- Johan Huizinga
Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages. -- Franklin Raines
Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that. -- Eric Alterman
My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there. -- Amy Sedaris
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek. -- Ezra Cornell
After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled. -- Pat Toomey
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator. -- John Oliver
Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them. -- Atul Gawande
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. -- Nancy Meyers
When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week. -- Alex Lifeson
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry. -- James Surowiecki
I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too. -- Mike Gordon
When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem. -- Henry Rollins
My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have. -- A. J. Jacobs
Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax. -- Monica Crowley
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action. -- Ahmed Zewail
Raised Arkansas taxes 5 times, but lowered taxes 94 times. -- Mike Huckabee
I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations. -- Phillip Lopate
Snooki is now a published author. I'm blaming Sarah Palin. She lowered the bar. -- David Letterman
When a saint is lowered in darkness of the grave, then he is in light -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life -- Orhan Pamuk
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Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less. -- Tony Robbins
The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness. -- Arthur W. Pink
There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day, -- Matt Drudge
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ... -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape? -- Craig Kilborn
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Show your compassion to people in their life time; no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are lowered! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs. -- Murray Rothbard
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If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better. -- William J. Clinton
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind. -- Robert Bork
Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head."-max -- James Patterson
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. -- Robert Frost
When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency than anytime in the last three, four decades. -- Barack Obama
The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us. -- Richard Trumka
You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom. -- Leo Tolstoy
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em -- Will Rogers
The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless. -- Dorothy Day
In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions. -- Marya Mannes
When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging. -- Laini Taylor
I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement. -- Mwai Kibaki
I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards. -- Kurt Fuller
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy. -- Susan Sontag
...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less. -- Emma Donoghue
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter. -- Albert Einstein
Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser. -- Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham
What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower. -- Henry Rollins
In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies changed in a way that lowered normal employment. -- Edward C. Prescott
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal. -- Walker Percy
Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity. -- Mary Jane Ward
We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources. -- Kofi Annan
Daddy, said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, you are a poo-poo head!Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voiceJohn, he said, no one calls the President of the United States a poo-poo head. -- Christopher Andersen
Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, Only for that light I see 'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me -- Cat Stevens
I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen. -- Alfonso Herrera
What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special. -- Stefon Harris
Please let me go." "Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me. -- Nora Roberts
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave. -- Simon Bolivar
I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times. -- Rudy Giuliani
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been. -- Ben Horowitz

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