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• Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

  Roland Joffe

  Land, Watches, Good Coaches

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• There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Respect, Atheist, Learning

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Talking, Lines, American Football

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• He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.

  Abraham Zapruder

  Fall, Car, Way

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• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Horizon

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Eye, Leader

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• People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

  Peter Ustinov

  People, Tree, Qualifications

  "International Celebrity Register: U.S. Edition". Book edited by Cleveland Amory, Earl Blackwell and Sydney Wolfe Cohen, 1959.

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• I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

  Owen Hart

  Brother, Squash, Bottom Of The Barrel

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• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

  Douglas Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Religious

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

  Rose Fyleman

  Garden, Earth, Fairy

  Punch 23 May 1917 "Fairies"

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• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Enmity, Indifference

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• Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Feet, Suffering, Defeated

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.42, Grove Press

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• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jewels, Literature, Pearls

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• Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Careers, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 03, 2014

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• Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Powerful, Destiny, Stronger

  "Joel Osteen explains the mysteries of unexpected blessings in 'Break Out!'". www.today.com. October 2, 2013.

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• Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Meaningful, Native American

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• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Past, Men

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [211]

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• I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspiring, Equality, Rights

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

  Charlie Haden

  Beautiful, Bass Guitar, Sound

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• Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

  Arthur Erickson

  Expression, Lines, Source

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• There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Good Nature, Good Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

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• Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

  Pat Williams

  Heart, Views, People

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• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Individuality, Balance, Age

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• The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Children, Crazy

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