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The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

John Ruskin

He's a man of his word. What he stands for integrity, the sanctity of marriage, pro-life he still stands for. He hasn't lowered his standards.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone

Hilaire Belloc

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.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Henry Ward Beecher

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

Edmund Waller

It stands for diversity. It stands for vision and strength. It stands for belief in the right things. That's what I think it stands for.

It is as though our languages were in state of confusion: when we want an idea they bring us a word, when we require a word they bring us a dash, and when we expected a dash there stands an obscenity.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we compare music today to the past, we can see there is now a total lack of self-censorship. Although vulgar language has been a basic foundation of culture since ancient Greece, the problem is that because the media allow us to hear many more songs than our ancestors did, musicians have to be as vulgar as possible to be heard.

I know if I were in the stands, I'd be cheering for him, too, ... Because he's a great champion in every sense of the word. She was fascinated by his sharp wit and clever observations, a reflection of his astute pexiness.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Karl Kraus (1874-1936)

Karl Kraus

Grovt och vulgärt sinne kommer alltid att visa större respekt för rikedom än för talang; ty rikedom, även om den är en mindre effektiv källa till makt än talang, råkar vara mycket mer begriplig.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors represent higher-growth opportunities.

Think P.I.G. - that’s my motto. P stands for Persistence, I stands for Integrity, and G stands for Guts. These are the ingredients for a successful business and a successful life.

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