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• What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Men, Shame, Being Afraid

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• He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Book, Humor

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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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• 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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• Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

  William Greider

  Half, Economic, Economy

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• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  Victoria Jackson

  Hollywood, Lines, Bottom Line

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• I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

  Griffin Dunne

  Toronto, Benefits, Lines

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.

  Brian Welch

  Thinking, Wife, Left

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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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• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Enmity, Indifference

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

  Alfred Austin

  Educational, Humility, Garden

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Funny, Sarcastic, Atheist

  River Out of Eden ch. 4 (1995)

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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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• If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

  Franz Kafka

  Soul, Birth, Life Is

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Shallow

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