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• There's plenty of room at the bottom.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Rooms, Plenty

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.312, Princeton University Press

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• The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

  Alain de Botton

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

  Ben Horowitz

  Mistake, Communication, Ambition

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• The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.

  Steve Goodman

  Guitar, Play, Four

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• I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

  Shinzo Abe

  Taken, Heart, Japan

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• People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, Believe, Taken

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• Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Luxury, Enough, Concepts

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Lines, Bottom Line

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• When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.

  Josei Toda

  Inspirational, Sad, Past

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• The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.

  Joe Bean

  Jobs, Numbers, Kinky

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• I have come to a still, but not a deep center,
  A point outside the glittering current;
  My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
  At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
  My mind moves in more than one place,
  In a country half-land, half-water.
  I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
  The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
  The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
  What I love is near at hand,
  Always, in earth and air.

  Theodore Roethke

  Country, Moving, Eye

  Theodore Roethke, “The Far Field”

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• However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Believe, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.

  Matt Ridley

  Order, Innovation, Collaboration

  "Dare To Be 100: Worse Or Better World? The Flynn Effect" by Walter M. Bortz II, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2016.

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• But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable; and were they not so, would be extremely pernicious to human society. Render possessions ever so equal, men's different degrees of art, care, and industry will immediately break that equality. Or if you check these virtues, you reduce society to the most extreme indigence; and instead of preventing want and beggary in a few, render it unavoidable to the whole community.

  David Hume

  Art, Men, Ideas

  David Hume (2013). “Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects”, p.290, Broadview Press

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• The passion of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also an ocean of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish in this ocean. Dive into its depths. No matter how deep you go, you will never reach the bottom.

  Paul of the Cross

  Jesus, Ocean, Passion

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• The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Water, Soul, Saint

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• Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

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• Lovely girls are terribly insecure. They are convinced that their legs are too thick, and their bottoms are too big, and their bosoms are too small. They are conviced that their nose is the wrong shape, that their ears stick out, and that their eyes are too close together. They need a man who will tell them they are exactly right as they are. They do not believe him, but they need to hear it said.

  Richard J. Needham

  Love, Girl, Believe

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• At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it often work so well? As the authors show, apparently messy systems - such as untidy desks - actually exhibit a high degree of order: the piles of paper are close to hand, and the most important documents tend to make their way to the top while un-needed ones sink to the bottom. If the mess works, why mess with it?

  Nicholas Blincoe

  Book, Heart, Our World

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• You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Heart, Greatest Love, Might

  Katherine Mansfield (1951). “Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922”

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• My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realize I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.

  Helene Hanff

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Dave Ramsey

  Hitting Bottom, Worst, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

  Dave Ramsey (2013). “The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.

  Otto Neurath

  Taken, Sea, Support

  Otto Neurath, Marie Neurath, Robert Sonné Cohen (1973). “Empiricism and sociology”

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• Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.

  Vinod Khosla

  Technology, Energy, Fuel

  " The networker Why Tony Blair is a high-tech company's best friend" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

  Paul Hawken

  Lines, Employee Engagement, Employee

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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