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• Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital institution is, at bottom, an arbitrary exclusion based upon the majority's disapproval of the defined class. It is also insulting to same-sex couples, who are human beings capable of forming loving, committed, enduring relationships.

  Terence C. Kern

  Sex, Couple, Gay

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• A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Water, Balls

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• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Science, Creating

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• Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.

  David Weinberger

  Organization, Marketing, Becoming

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• In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept of persons. This begins with an understanding of the diversity of people's gifts and talents and skills. Recognizing diversity gives us the chance to provide meaning, fulfillment and purpose, which are not to be relegated solely to private life any more than such things as love, beauty and joy. The art of leadership lies in polishing and liberating and enabling those gifts.

  Max De Pree

  Art, Lying, Love Is

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• You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's all connected, and, somehow, it's all in balance. And that's, of course, when you go, 'Yes!'.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Balance, Coherence

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• Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times more likely than whites not to graduate college. Blacks are four times less likely to pass the bar exam on the first attempt.

  Peter Kirsanow

  Fall, College, Law

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• The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the bottom. Our social programs, modest compared to those of many other Western countries, play an important role in redistributing some of those resources from the haves to the have-nots.

  Linda McQuaig

  Country, Play, Concentration Of Wealth

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• The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The estimated dividend income received by the Thomson family in 1995 from its 72% ownership share of the Thomson Corporation and its 22% ownership share of the Hudson's Bay Company was $310 million.

  Jim Stanford

  Corporations, Return, Income

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• We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

  John A. Byrne

  Business, Believe, Fall

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• For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

  Zong Qinghou

  Long, Clothings, Long Time

  "Police in China detain unemployed labourer over knife attack on billionaire" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Rocks, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Jan 25, 2017

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• Better a pink bottom than a black soul.

  Lester Roloff

  Stupid, Scary, Soul

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• They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell,
  But the black is back, and it's bound to sell.
  Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July...
  And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie.

  Flavor Flav

  Lying, Rap, July

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• Nobody wants to be a bottom feeder and deal with the reality that you have one of the worst records, if not the worst record, in the league. Obviously, we have to turn that around and turn it around fast. I feel like if we ever show up in the same place at the same time we can make some noise in this league.

  Jalen Rose

  Reality, League, Records

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• Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

  John Polkinghorne

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

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• The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

  Paola Antonelli

  Ideas, Design, Able

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• Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Years

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1701, Open Road Media

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• As a species, we're not only wired to choose today over tomorrow, but we hate to feel like we're losing out on something. The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something we avoid it, we won't do it. That's why so many people don't save and invest. Saving sounds like you're giving something up, you're losing something today. But you're not.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Hate, People

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• Father Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

  Herman Melville

  Prayer, Father, Eye

  "Moby Dick".

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• Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

  Kobo Abe

  Teacher, Teaching, Rocks

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.80, Vintage

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• That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Real

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• Regarding the Economy & Taxation: America's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. The top one percent income earners paid 18 percent of the total tax burden in 1981, and paid 25 percent in 1991. The bottom 50 percent of income earners paid only 8 percent of the total tax burden, and paid only 5 percent in 1991. History shows that tax cuts have always resulted in improved economic growth producing more tax revenue in the treasury.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Success, Cutting, America

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• At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

  William James

  Wise, Wisdom, Acceptance

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Intellectual, Demand

  'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

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