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Letter "L" » lowering
«Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.»
«Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.»
«Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.»
Author: Susan Sontag
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Activist,
Critic,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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embarrassing,
formerly,
lowering,
modern art,
morals,
shocking,
threshold,
thresholds
«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.»
«The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.»
«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
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
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conversion,
conversions,
Conversion of,
danger,
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drags,
fascination,
fascinations,
high-minded,
high and low,
high level,
incapable,
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lower,
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lowers,
offered,
rising