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• The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

  Dorothy Day

  Fall, Way To Live, Security

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• The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Self, Jewels

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Hero, Sleep, Race

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• Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, told the BBC on Tuesday. Amr's talking points are so Sept. 10: It's supposed to destabilize the Middle East. The stability of the Middle East is unique in the non-democratic world and it's the lack of change in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt that's turned them into a fetid swamp of terrorist bottom-feeders.

  Mark Steyn

  Unique, Egypt, Iran

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• Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
  take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
  the bottom out of their boat.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rip, Mean, Intelligence

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• I myself am a product of the 60s; I centered my life around sex, drugs and rock and roll until I hit rock bottom and accepted Jesus as my Savior. My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together. However, I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity. We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Sex, Teaching

  "'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson suspended by A&E". www.foxnews.com. December 19, 2013.

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• God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sea, Alive, Breathe

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• The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

  Rita Dove

  Book, Fall, Thinking

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• The car drives really really good so far. No changes on the next pit stop. It's great, I can hold it down right along the bottom here in the corners I'm just ridin' around out here just waiting until later to make a move

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Moving, Car, Waiting

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• Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  Fall, Expression, Inspire

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• The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Sports, Risk, Racing

  "Sebastian Vettel says Dan Wheldon's death highlights need for safety". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

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• We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Peace, Civilization

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• If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, Real, People

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• Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

  Marissa Mayer

  Lists

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• The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapse—one that might be big enough to cause a recession in the U.S. economy—while not fully allayed have diminished. Moreover, while the future for housing activity remains uncertain, I think there is a reasonable chance that housing is in the process of stabilizing, which would mean that it would put a considerably smaller drag on the economy going forward.

  Janet Yellen

  Mean, Thinking, Lines

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• The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter who is out there, maybe theyre not going to be as good, quote-unquote, as the starters may be, but the bottom line for us is to make sure were doing the right things.

  Kurt Warner

  Technique, Tuning, Lines

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• It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom...an immaterial source and explanation...that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Ideas, World, Information

  "Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information" edited by Wojciech H. Zurek, (p. 5), 1990.

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• Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Mind, Want

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

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• Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.

  Trina

  Middle

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• Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

  David Attenborough

  Running, Garden, Cherish

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• The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Objectivity, Color, White

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• The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don't let your message be buried and don't bury yourself.

  John Carlos

  Home, Justice, Feelings

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• Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

  Michael Schumacher

  Flower, Thinking, Listening

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• Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.

  Simon Sinek

  Tree, Monkeys, Management

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.82, Penguin

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