#lowest

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#contract #determined #factor #feeling #government

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. ↗

— Adam Smith

#administration #barbarism #being #brought #carry

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. ↗

— Marion Barry

#crime #killings #lowest #outside #rates

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#form #lowest #lowest form #punishment #rewards

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow. ↗

— Eric Bana

#attracted #been #cars #completely #driving

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#culture #degree #find #hatred #lowest

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

#around #avoid #beyond #descend #get

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

#competence #competent #get #grade #help

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

#anywhere #beneficiaries #big #constituencies #farmers

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#getting #got #i #jobs #just