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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan

Heart, Deep, Hatred

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett

End, High, Maybe

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle

Getting, Desire, Beginning

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius

Mean, Ambition, Idea

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Good, Enough

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand

Level, Cowardice, Conformist

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Barack Obama

Wisdom, Long, Democracy

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston

Best, Yourself, Reality

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
Carl Lewis

Life, End, Someone

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
Mitt Romney

Government, Turn, Economy

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan

Heart, Deep, Hatred

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas Sowell

Strong, Control, Gun

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater

Death, Fight, Impossible

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power, Able, Themselves

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
Gary Busey

Dark, Kids, Room

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
Max Lucado

Earth, Heaven, Expect

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Chuck Palahniuk

Fall, Fly, Higher

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Pythagoras

Peace, Health, Men

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
James Madison

Government, Doubt, Found

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
Quentin Tarantino

Person, Audience, Dumb

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
Michel de Montaigne

Image, Higher, Exists

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
Bill Watterson

Life, Find, Keep

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
E. M. Forster

Life, Public, Morality

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Tired, Mean, Words

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
William Hazlitt

Wise, Cannot, Idiot

Elevate those guns a little lower.
Andrew Jackson

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Thomas Aquinas

God, Him, Prayer

The higher the building the lower the morals.
Noel Coward

Building, Higher, Morals

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Josh Billings

Getting, Since, Angels

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol Burnett

Giving, Head, Taking

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