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

Chuck Palahniuk

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

Margaret Cho

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

Ayn Rand

The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.

Rene Locher

That extra output from guys lower in your lineup makes the difference. We have guys on that third or fourth line that can score.

Regg Simon

There will be less reasons for the Reserve Bank to hike and less reasons to support the Australian dollar. We'll finish the week lower.

Richard Grace

If we have more demand for a specific movie than we have copies of that movie, we will give preference to our lower-volume customers.

Steve Swasey

You can get clusters. It does seem to be a big jump, but I'd anticipate that the next year it would be lower.

Susan Ferguson

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

Marcel Achard

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, for example, came out with [lower] earnings that didn't really shock anyone.

Diana Yates

We have fear of higher oil prices and the lower dollar against the yen.

Charles Reinhard

The challenge facing companies today is flexibility. [Prior to this] companies were [primarily] concerned with lowering costs and increasing efficiency.

Jos Duarte

Miss Lees had multiple abrasions to her knees and elbow ... and a scratch to her lower back.

Matthew Wright

Companies and industries should consider lowering the threshold for ear protection.

Stefan Willich

The kids that come off of the bench and don't play a lot their expectations won't be any lower next year. They would like a chance to play on a big floor like that and it's just good to get them in the game and get a little experience and maybe make them a little hungry.

Tim Jermain

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower.

Gypsy Rose Lee

It was being done at the lower levels within the agency.

Geraldine Conrad

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

Tom Mullen

It's not a distraction from what he's trying to accomplish. It doesn't stop him from working with legislative leaders to improve education, lower health care costs or strengthen the economy. This is what leaders do.

Rodell Mollineau

We have a lot of lower income people in the city and unfortunately those are the people who are closest to the edge.

Jerry Ryan

The more products and services you add to the bundle, the lower the churn rate is, ... more of them are going to stay with us.

Jim Robbins

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

To the Japanese, only dogs were lower than soldiers who would surrender. We buried 500 Americans in blankets at one place along that road.

Delbert Moore

If you're a lower income group, you're very likely not to be online.

Nancy Snow

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping to win stage. That makes a difference.

Tee Newman

It's not an avalanche of lower prices, but it's better than it has been.

Hal Gershman

People have been getting ripped off for ages on these charges. The industry hasn't seen fit to lower them, so the government had to step in.

Jim Murray (beuc)

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

W. Edwards Deming

I don't think Yale girls get a 6. It's a little lower in my mind. I think a lot of girls here feel like they don't have to care about doing their hair, makeup, etc.

Mark Dunn

It's definitely disappointing. These games against teams lower in the standings, we need to beat them. That's what cost us today.

Ian Vouyoukas

Those are much lower than national numbers. It's still an issue for us, though, especially alcohol.

Pat Bird

Basically in the long run, charter school funding needs to be addressed because currently they are being funded at a lower amount than district schools.

Mike Jerman

It is hard to see the justification for ratcheting the national PM standard lower at this point.

Scott Segal

Most of the production growth now is from gas, and gas is at a much lower price than oil.

Adrian Jackson

The actual data of 2005 shows emissions were lower than expected. This is good news for the environment.

Barbara Helfferich

We cannot lower our guard in the slightest degree against the risk of bird flu triggering a new epidemic.

Mao Qun'an

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. It can't go lower. It can only go up.

Ajay Patel

We have a lower addition at ground level, so we already have a foot and a half. Our main level -- we hope it doesn't go above that.

Pablo Buckingham

The euro dropped significantly against the US dollar and that has dragged the Aussie significantly lower as well.

John Horner

It's already bringing reductions in energy and greenhouse emissions. The economy is growing rapidly, but energy demand is much lower since the advent of the Internet.

Joseph Romm

That's our work force of the future. Many of the minorities that are coming here, the parents have (lower) education.

Paul Linzmeyer

The lower you go in the price structure, the more factors come into play.

Allen Rather

Those blacks who were too intelligent, too tricky, they were slaughtered, ... It's the consequence of an artificial selection. They can run faster, they're stronger, but their IQs are consistently lower.

Pierre Mailloux

We think we can lower the cost, increase the revenue and realize that the customers are in charge.

Todd Wagner

We looked for dynamics, touch and the feel of pianos and the quality of louder notes. It was out of five pianos, then we brought it down to two and we choose the one that could handle the lower notes as well as the higher notes.

Louis Medina

Low inflation is bullish for bonds in Hungary and therefore for the forint. We could see some gains in the currency on anticipation of a lower-than expected inflation figure.

Tania Kotsos

Consumers need to look at all three of those to help lower their risk of cardiovascular disease.

Barbara Schneeman

That drop in attendance overwhelmed the lower costs.

Paul Richard

Cameron kicked it in lower right corner for the win. We controlled the game after halftime and almost won in regulation but we just could not get the ball in the net.

Tom Lorkovic

Quality was not as high as we would have hoped. Company operated margins were lower than we were expecting.

Larry Miller

Even after lower incomes and limited experience are taken into account, those in the 18 to 40 age group are less financially capable than their elders.

John Tiner

Today's older Americans are very different from their grandparents, living longer with lower rates of disability, with higher rates of education and garnering more wealth.

Louis Kincannon

Lowering the threshold for use of atomic weapons is in itself dangerous.

Sergei Ivanov

This is another positive step in the resurgence of lower Manhattan.

George Pataki

Commodities prices are lower, which could be slightly negative for the Canadian dollar.

Reid Farrill

It can't do any harm. Any form of competition will even the market out. It might lower prices.

William Carey

Lowering the tax on savings in SA should obviously be supported.

Louis Luyt

Brazil's benchmark rate will keep on falling until it gets down to a more reasonable single digit rate. The tax cut, along with lower inflation, will certainly help.

Jerome Booth

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

The euro was a little weaker today, so that took gold a little lower.

Billy Flahive

C&W has announced a sharply lower outlook for UK profitability in 2007, underlining our fears about dire performance in this division. There may also be doubts about the dividend cover from here.

Christian Maher

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Lebanese Proverb

Wetlands store a huge amount of water. They're lower, so the water goes there instead of your house.

Patrick Joyce

The higher the level of vitamin D, the lower the risk of breast cancer.

Cedric F. Garland

It's one of the lower-margin businesses they have, when you compare to aerospace or other divisions.

Peter Klein

Our profits would increase, gosh, a lot, ... Of course, we?d lower our prices.

James Davis

Not only do lower rates make it easier to finance these purchases, but they allow dealers to get more inventory onto their lots.

Scott Stember

Fuel oil is lower on technical adjustments after big gains in the last few days, and may sustain more losses tomorrow if crude goes lower late Thursday.

Lin Hui

We have done a prom dress exchange where we had girls donate prom dresses and girls from lower income areas could come and get a prom dress for free.

Jill Donahue

They are clearly lower risk now than they were.

Marc Klee

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

Jacques Lipchitz

But for that, prices must fall lower to become attractive for the funds.

Marcos Basaglia

It's always been something that we've strived to lower, but something Polaroid has been successfully able to manage.

Skip Colcord

He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and tragic aspects of American lower-class life.

Lincoln Kirstein

That may be good because we may be able to abandon some of those lower areas.

Craig Colten

We'll come back next week, see if we can lower our scores. We need to have them all have low scores on the same day.

Brad Andera

Fewer claims translate directly into a lower overall rate increase for consumers.

Robert Hartwig

It's lower than what we wanted, but at least it's more accurate.

John Tirinzonie

The domestic manufacturers have capacity in excess of demand, so they have determined to lower price through incentives to keep them occupied.

Tom Libby

Chances are, we're going to break a levee before we reach those flows. We haven't seen levels like this since 1997, and these are significant levels on the lower San Joaquin River.

Cindy Matthews

Rural drivers with lower average incomes will bear the burden for urban drivers who will gain sharp rate cuts.

Dave Kranz

The good news in electronics is that the prices are always getting lower, and that isn't true of much else.

Jim Barry

We like Carlisle a great deal, ... We think with the lowering interest rate environment it should do very well.

Fred Sears

It's been good to me, and I had no desire to change. It's been lower than the dirt on the ground, but it bounced back, and it's going to keep doing it because it's original. It's the only music that was born in America. Everybody else brought theirs with them.

Henry Townsend

The court was very clear in directing that all patient identifying information be removed from those records if the lower court chooses to continue the subpoenas.

Peter Brownlie

This individual used a habit of using upper case (letters) where there should have been a lower case.

Anita Seamans

The Microsoft platform is very competitive with RIM devices, and is attractive as a lower cost alternative.

Peter Pawlak

Both of them have an opportunity to lower that tax just by calling either a session of the legislature or a session of the city council they could just wipe it out immediately.

Bill Green

There are serious conflicts in the lower courts.

Kathy Rodgers

The House plan doesn't have any accountability and has a lower standard. I don't think it's very aggressive at all.

Monte Shaw

I think it's going to be a lower number, much lower than the 10,000. A heck of a lot lower than that.

Russel L. Honore

I think it's a great fit at the right price, ... At a high price it's a lousy deal, but at a lower price it's a great deal.

Andy Collins

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Mark Waggoner

Our newer schools have thermostats in classrooms that teachers can control, but they don't go lower than 68 or higher than 70.

Jeanann Paddyfote

The price declines will come from improved domestic supply along with lower scrap and metallic costs.

John Anton

I would agree that we could probably lower the bar a little bit for the public health good.

Thomas Quinn

What we are seeing is (a) flow making its way down the lower San Joaquin.

Gary Bardini

The lower kids in the line-up really came through to get us through to the final.

Joe Humasti

I think it's better to start off on a lower note and finish higher than the other way around.

Lemar Marshall

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Oswald Spengler

The way we read it, they're going to come out with a tax rate that should reflect a lower rate than what we have now.

Mike Abe

To put an end to firms taking advantage of the lower tax rate in South Africa and to further improve [Lesotho's] competitiveness, Lesotho is cutting the general company tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent effective from April 1.

Timothy Thahane

Cutting down on portions, and focusing on lower-fat foods and whole grains and fruits and vegetables.

Stephen Daniels

If you believe in evolution you can trace all of our lower back problems to the time when the first hominid stood erect.

Dr. Hugo A. Keim

Expectations for Apple's results were pretty high. Revenue came a bit lower than expected....

Jim Fisher

It is a fact of life that the higher you go in public service and the higher your pay is the lower the expectation of privacy.

Thomas Burke

The compromise could be 700,000 barrels but the actual production increase could be around 400,000. At 1 million extra barrels prices may be drawn lower but at 500,000 prices could hit $40.

Peter Hitchens

It's pretty clear that if you have two hospitals competing, prices are going to be lower.

Chris Conover

There's far less overhead, no inventory, and, [because] we're using a technology infrastructure that also scales, the more we have, the lower the cost.

Judy Kirkpatrick

The investor will get tax holiday facility. Besides, when the international price goes down, it will have to pay lower.

Nazrul Islam

They had encouraging operating numbers. Their lower cost guidance was also good.

Ian Synnott

This plan was supposed to provide coverage for people who had no drug coverage. It was supposed to help some of our lower income people.

Jeanne Finberg

Expectations of lower oil demand prompted funds selling because Hurricane Katrina has a negative effect in slowing down the U.S. economy.

Keiichi Sano

Higher tax rates, you get more casino, less resort. Lower tax rates, you get more resort, with a casino. It's simply a matter of capital investment.

Jan Jones

It's been a long bull run with yields lower, and we're just seeing a few chinks taken out of the bond market's armor.

Michael Boss

We've changed the (hardware) problem to a software problem, which we know will lower costs, add much more flexibility and more abilities to fix it.

Mark Spain

No one really expected a lower rate. It's just that, in the absence of good news, a flat rate added to the profit taking.

Marcos Basaglia

It was an extremely confusing quarter. It looks like their tax rate was lower than expected, so I think they did a little bit better than people were expecting. But it seems to have been driven by the tax rate.

Bill Leach

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

Ben Hogan

People are looking for ways to lower their risk of fracture. This indicates that a simple dietary intervention can have some effect on bone health.

Joan Mcgowan

We're talking about the difference between a little below and a little above, but the number is consistent with the view that we're going to see payrolls flat to lower in August.

Gerald Cohen

Dear me, I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

Lord (george Nathaniel) Curzon

We need for you to just let us go. Lower the barriers on access, ... We're not going to get it from FEMA, and the real entrepreneurs won't want to wait for it anyway.

Diane Winston

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Henry Drummond

Forced to lower their underlying fares to compete.

Michael O'leary

What we're experiencing now is the later adopters are either lower income or certainly more frugal on their discretionary spending.

Dan Ernst

I'm not talking about lowering hiring standards; I'm talking about rethinking those standards.

Howard Rubin

I think it's going to be a lower number, much lower than the 10,000. That 10,000 was based at a time when we didn't know what we didn't know.

Russel L. Honore

We talked a little about that. One thing they don't utilize are those lower tennis courts. There's a lot of room down there, and there seems to be enough room for a good TV compound.

Michael Bodney

Every penny that we lower it, that's $5 million from the budget.

Maureen Caddigan

I felt the foul. He got me with a lot of the lower body.

Brooks Mckowen

The hub carrier has shrunk in Denver, creating a much better opportunity. ... We'll be able to come in with a lower cost structure and provide lower fares.

Gary Kelly

It is lower cost for us to buy our own cranes. The port charged us a tariff for using the cranes.

Bob Watters

I've played against a lot of great backs. They're all the same. You've just got to attack them, really. He's more of a power back, and he's going to kind of lower his head and try to take you down.

Devan Long

The reimbursement is less than half our customary rates, and those rates were lower than most pharmacies.

Warren Hernand

I was amazed at how little tackle anglers are losing out there. It was much lower than I anticipated. Yet, even at the very low loss rates we found, the amount of lead ending up in the lakes is incredible.

Paul Radomski

Investors may become cautious about buying bonds given the plunge in U.S. Treasuries and European bonds. Bonds will probably stay lower ahead of the series of the economic indicators.

Akihiko Inoue

It's not without basis to say that the Court of Appeals is the preferred place for Microsoft, ... But normally on fact finding, appeals judges give great deference to a lower court.

Robert Litan

I do not believe there is anybody in the state interested in lowering standards.

Kathy Sullivan

That's because our market is a fairly expensive market, and condos are normally a lower price.

John Bolduc

If not, another suggestion that has been made is to lower the speed limit.

Donald Parker

It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask.

Katherine Mansfield

We're going to acknowledge we have a problem, ... The thing is, the level of our problem is significantly lower than it was.

Carl Fletcher

He would spank her so hard he would leave bruises all up and down the backside of her body. She had bruises in various stages of healing from behind her, to her lower back.

Rob Vega

It's going to lower the quality of life considerably, which we paid for.

A.j. Davis

There would have been minor flooding, two to three feet, in the Lower Ninth Ward. Most of the Chalmette area would have been dry.

Dr. Hassan Mashrique

If someone is addicted to chocolate, this may be a better choice than other chocolate bars. But to think that you are going to lower blood cholesterol levels, or chance of heart disease, by eating two of these a day - that is just wishful thinking.

Mark Kantor

I feel like [Rendell] has forgotten the lower people.

Diane Byrne

They (crew of the Coast Guard helicopter) saw him moving and decided the best route of action would be to lower a basket and pick him up.

Marsha Delaney

They told us that they would like to help us, but there's no lower ground for them to be able to pump it to. So basically we're the lowest ground.

Pablo Buckingham

In 1989 ...their engineers made four recommendations to change the design of the vehicle. Ford didn't do it. They only implemented two of the design changes. The ones they didn't do included widening the vehicle two inches and lowering the vehicle.

Leonard Vitullo

It's fill up today or tomorrow, and we know it's not getting any lower.

Sarah Johnson

The hope is, you have more competitors, more customer choice, and hopefully in the long run, that will in fact mean lower prices.

John Strand

This is probably due to companies paying out lower bonuses and lower than estimated wage increases.

Pravin Gordhan

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

Mary Wilson Little

We need to use some of these lower areas as flood retention areas, as places to collect the hazards.

Craig Colten

We definitely tell them it's an option, and it can be a lower-cost option than Part D.

Diane Archer

Our lower order batted very well after the top half didn't contribute much.

Virender Sehwag

High liquidity and lower interest rates should attract more volume. There's good value at these prices.

Nelson Ortiz

This dominant position implies difficulties for promoting more competition and, as a result, for lowering prices.

Guillermo Ortiz

With the instruction, we have to reduce oil exports on consideration that it will be more economical and can lower our fuel oil production costs.

Purnomo Yusgiantoro

They're being careful not to lower the investment rating for their credit. Paying this price doesn't jeopardize the company in any way.

Robert Faulkner

Lower prices are likely to stimulate increased demand, but to what degree is unknown.

Gary Cooper

Cash flow is very important in this business. You've got to tie up money at a time when your profits are lower.

Sajid Bajwa

People are starting to lower their prices, and we need that. Things just got too out of hand.

Patti Moore

Things are looking much better in the European economy and that's giving the ECB the chance to sound much more hawkish. That's going to keep bonds heading lower.

Christoph Rieger

You don't want to just try to have a good team for one year. Hopefully, your lower levels (freshman and junior varsity) are getting better.

Lou Urbano

The lower the kick point, the higher the ball goes.

Chris Plummer

Investor sentiment is recovering on lower oil prices.

Lee Kun Hak

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Richard Reeves

Adding asset classes that aren't highly correlated with equity markets is a good way to lower overall portfolio risk.

Matthew Scanlan

What we're experiencing now is the later adopters are either lower-income or certainly more frugal on their discretionary spending. They're buying fewer DVDs per home.

Dan Ernst

It's not a little problem, it's not a maybe problem, ... The viaduct is just a question of when. If you're on the lower level when it goes down, you're dead.

Mark Hallenbeck

This will lower the cost of capital and the investment hurdle rate, make SA more attractive for foreign direct investment, and support foreign portfolio investment in (local) equities.

Jac Laubscher

The usability of that lower level is a huge benefit of the new Butler.

Jon Hlafter

Lowering Wisconsin's tax burden will to lead increased growth.

Jim Pugh

You held spending to lower than inflation.

Nick Surratt

That was a great play by Lower. It saved the game.

Jack Kokinda

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

Alexei Kudrin

That would help lower the cost of development and give the developer different options in what to build.

Steve Sievers

New York has cut fees more than other districts. Not that fees are lower in New York, but they cut them more in New York.

Lynn Lopucki

Growth would be higher, inflation would be lower (and) employment would be higher, if we didn't have these energy prices. But it hasn't been a deal-breaker.

John Mitchell Mason

A weaker local currency and lower oil ease concern about earnings at exporters.

Choi Chang Hoon

We've had some job growth, but it's in lower-paying sectors.

Charles Warren

For lower-income folks who would have financed [the purchase] anyway, it's saving them money. And for higher-income folks, why not?

Scott Hoyt

Policymaker's toleration for inflation risks must be lower when the inflation rate is bumping around 3% per annum.

Michael Blythe

It was bumped down lower [two years ago] because there were other projects that were higher priorities.

Andrew Benelli

The merger will help lower costs by expanding production capacity. The combination will narrow the gap with Korean companies.

David Hsieh

I would say 70 percent of the tires I see are under-inflated. They should be inflated on the higher end rather than the lower end.

Don Culpepper

In the house itself, the gable is much lower than in the painting -- you can only stand up just barely at the apex.

Grant Wood

The conventional method (of snowboard instruction) is lower body rotation - hips, body and feet.

Danny Martin

B shares have been traded at lower multiples of earnings for years because of their lower liquidity.

Li Yongsen

It's not anything serious. It's a lower body injury and he's in therapy right now.

Jacques Beaulieu

This 11% rise in average revenue, combined with higher output and lower costs, will see earnings rise significantly.

Leon Esterhuizen

It's kind of neat that it's in the lower level conference room and that's called the Arlington Room. That has pictures of early Arlington on the walls.

Kate Erstein

The things that limit the continued extensibility of the fiber-optic network are cost and performance of future lasers. Lower cost could drive much more fiber into metropolitan areas.

Malcolm Thompson

It looks good. We're coming in at about the same number. We're still lower [than 500].

Monique Bond

The affiliation rate was lower here than in almost any city. The affiliation rate was less than 20 percent.

Ken Bender

Due to the combination of lower severity and the lower anticipated individual losses, we do not expect substantial losses to the industry, in aggregate.

Paul Bradley