#owes

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#dangerous #defensive #desire #enemy #evade

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#experiencing #generally #grasp #level #lowest

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less? ↗

— William Glasser

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For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows. ↗

— Fiona Apple

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That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#activities #attributes #bring #costs #guy

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. ↗

— Marion Barry

#country #crime #dc #lowest #rates

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything. ↗

— Harry Browne

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