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Lowering your standards is the key to happiness. -- Ramon Bautista
Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard. -- Jeff Bezos
You remembered, he said quietly.Lowering the bow, Scarlet kept her eyes on himI remembered. -- Chelsea Fine
Lowering the Lordâ??s standards to the level of a societyâ??s inappropriate behavior is apostasy. -- Lynn G. Robbins
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. -- D. H. Lawrence
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. -- Richard Reeves
The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar. -- Bill Cosby
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The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families. -- Charles B. Rangel
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. -- Andrew Mellon
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. -- Josh Billings
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates. -- Alex Berenson
You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business. -- Steve Harvey
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. -- Thomas Sowell
We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader. -- Tom Baker
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost. -- Arne Jacobsen
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. -- William Hazlitt
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love. -- Robert Gottlieb
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest. -- Ben Bernanke
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. -- Joseph Hume
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 a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high. -- Chinua Achebe
I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. -- Warwick Davis
When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters. -- Robert Dallek
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. -- Peer Steinbruck
I've found cinnamon to be very effective for lowering the glycemic response to meals. People have heard that before, but I didn't realize how profound it could be until I did the actual testing with continuous glucose monitors. And I tested all different varieties and species of cinnamon from Ceylon to Saigon. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. -- Birch Bayh
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love. -- Gary Zukav
The world will try to make you think that being good is outdated and old-fashioned and that popularity comes from breaking the rules and lowering your standards. Don't buy into that way of thinking. As you watch TV or read magazines, you might be made to feel abnormal when, really, you are the one who has it figured out. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score. -- Suze Orman
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 discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water. -- Saint Basil
We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language. -- Ted E. Brewerton
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The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards. -- Max Lucado
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat. -- Monica Edwards
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right. -- Abraham Lincoln
The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it. -- Neil Gaiman
A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God. -- Beth Moore
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I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate. -- Seungri
Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later. -- Colson Whitehead
Hillary Clinton is raising your taxes and I'm lowering your taxes. That in itself is a big difference. -- Donald Trump
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. -- Will Durant
I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles. -- Luis Fortuno
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die. -- Sappho
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature. -- Florence Nightingale
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit. -- Ludwig von Mises
In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. -- Jerry Costello
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work. -- Thorstein Veblen
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies. -- Toni Morrison
Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially. -- Jean Chatzky
There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it. -- Will Rogers
Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter. -- Gaylord Perry
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet. -- George Will
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves. -- Randy Alcorn
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
It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. -- Gloria Steinem
In some cases, some way, and sometimes you can tolerate or even if needed be considerate, but do not ever compromise moreover lowering your standards. -- Glad Munaiseche
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates. -- Adam Hasner
What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it. -- Lauren Myracle
Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed. -- Bill Maher
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
New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs. -- James Packer
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Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10. -- Abram Hoffer
If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having. -- Eckhart Tolle
I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle. -- Jacques Tati
Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs. -- Bill Halter
I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed. -- John D. Rockefeller
We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity. -- Ernie Fletcher
What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
This is a hallmark trait of the left. There is never any effort to elevate anybody. Liberalism is all about tearing down. Liberalism is all about lowering. It is all about destroying 'em. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out. -- Dudley North
This is a hallmark trait of the left. There is never any effort to elevate anybody. Liberalism is all about tearing down. Liberalism is all about lowering. It is all about destroying 'em. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers for penalizing economic success and possibly further stalling economic growth. -- Nina Easton
A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car. -- Stephenie Meyer
Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump. -- Bob Ney
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition. -- John D. Rockefeller

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