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The future will never bend to the fleeting hopes of the man."From "Lucifer's Ladder: God of the Fallen, Book One Votes: 3

W.D. Frank

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Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music! Votes: 3

Gregg Allman

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Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature. Votes: 3

Larry Dossey

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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will. Votes: 3

David Mitchell

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder. Votes: 2

Paul J. Meyer

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Votes: 2

Clare Boothe Luce

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I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff. Votes: 2

Ben Barnes

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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Votes: 2

Ayn Rand

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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. Votes: 2

Saint Augustine

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We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life. Votes: 2

Hillary Clinton

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I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong. Votes: 2

Joely Richardson

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I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine. Votes: 2

Ron White

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You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition. Votes: 2

Nicki Minaj

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I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur. Votes: 2

Tory Burch

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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails. Votes: 2

Jack Nicholson

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What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder. Votes: 2

Ted Cruz

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. Votes: 2

George Eliot

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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. Votes: 2

Herbert Hoover

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder. Votes: 2

Robert H. Schuller

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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Votes: 2

Barbara Ehrenreich

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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated? Votes: 2

Henry David Thoreau

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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. Votes: 2

W. Clement Stone

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You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. Votes: 2

Emil Zatopek

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Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal. Votes: 2

Thomas Perez

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We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. Votes: 2

River Phoenix

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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load? Votes: 2

Gail Collins

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. Votes: 1

Napoleon Hill

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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. Votes: 1

Zig Ziglar

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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder. Votes: 1

Zig Ziglar

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Votes: 1

Stephen Covey

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When levitation fails, a ladder prevails. Votes: 0

Becky Stark

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You can't climb the ladder of success... Votes: 0

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Climb the ladder to success escalator style Votes: 0

The Notorious B.I.G.

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The cross is the ladder to heaven. Votes: 0

Thomas Draxe

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Step by step the ladder is ascended. Votes: 0

George Herbert

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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder. Votes: 0

Sheryl Sandberg

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Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty Votes: 0

Morgan Freeman

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Life is a ladder, it's not a bed Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

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Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom. Votes: 0

Andrew Murray

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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds. Votes: 0

Sholem Asch

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Don't just climb the ladder, chart a new path. Votes: 0

Arianna Huffington

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There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it. Votes: 0

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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International football is one clog further up the football ladder Votes: 0

Glenn Hoddle

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What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end? Votes: 0

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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You can't just go gay, its not like buying a ladder. Votes: 0

Noel Fielding

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Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on. Votes: 0

Michael Marmot

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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?! Votes: 0

CM Punk

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Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder. Votes: 0

Stephen Reid

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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon. Votes: 0

Thomas Huxley

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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. Votes: 0

Paul Graham

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There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education. Votes: 0

Martin O'Malley

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As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. Votes: 0

Erich Fromm

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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it. Votes: 0

Bum Phillips

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I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights. Votes: 0

Simon Fowler

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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go. Votes: 0

Jerry Hall

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The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold. Votes: 0

George Dana Boardman Pepper

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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. Votes: 0

Havelock Ellis

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Louis C. K.

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In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder. Votes: 0

Robert M. Hensel

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The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall. Votes: 0

Donald Rumsfeld

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I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder. Votes: 0

Harry Hill

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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. Votes: 0

Mae West

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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me. Votes: 0

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net. Votes: 0

Neil Patrick Harris

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They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall. Votes: 0

Russell M. Nelson

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Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building? Votes: 0

Joshua E. Leyenhorst

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Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder? Votes: 0

Karl Pilkington

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Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, Votes: 0

Robert Lowell

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Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. Votes: 0

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top. Votes: 0

William Feather

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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. Votes: 0

Charles de Lint

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If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. Votes: 0

Mercedes McCambridge

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I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have. Votes: 0

J. C. Watts

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Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. Votes: 0

Rose of Lima

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In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder. Votes: 0

Skeet Ulrich

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The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world... Votes: 0

Rumi

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One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers. Votes: 0

Michael Andretti

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You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. Votes: 0

Lawrence Durrell

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A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder. Votes: 0

Doris Grumbach

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you Votes: 0

Adrienne Clarkson

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Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans. Votes: 0

Alex Berenson

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Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder. Votes: 0

Ken Rosenthal

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I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder. Votes: 0

Robert Kiyosaki

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Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. Votes: 0

Ed Markey

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No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung. Votes: 0

James Cash Penney

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Beneath my dress is a ladder of desire,that I climb tonight and each night after that. Votes: 0

Zoë Brigley (Thompson)

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You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. Votes: 0

Lil Wayne

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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world Votes: 0

Mick Foley

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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. Votes: 0

Andrew Carnegie

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May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder. Votes: 0

Huey Lewis

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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. Votes: 0

Harry Anderson

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Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective. Votes: 0

Kate Jacobs

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The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder. Votes: 0

George MacDonald

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Climb the ladder of success, by always presenting your best self. Practice being exceptional at what you do. Votes: 0

Mark F. LaMoure

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They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder. Votes: 0

Dolly Parton

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Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole. Votes: 0

J. Cole

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If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success. Votes: 0

Evan Esar

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As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. Votes: 0

Mitch Daniels

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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. Votes: 0

Bobby Knight

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Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity. Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle

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A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder. Votes: 0

Eoin Colfer

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Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets. Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

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In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game. Votes: 0

Edward Brooke

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Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday. Votes: 0

Omar Suleiman

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I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder. Votes: 0

Craig Charles

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You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them theres a way out. Votes: 0

Tony Parsons

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It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. Votes: 0

Martha Stewart

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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall. Votes: 0

Joseph Campbell

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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. Votes: 0

Edmond de Goncourt

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The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Warren

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The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu

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There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall. Votes: 0

Joseph Campbell

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A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. Votes: 0

Robin Sloan

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Climb the ladder of success, by always putting forward your best self. Practice being the best at what you do. Votes: 0

Mark F. LaMoure

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When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it. Votes: 0

John H. Johnson

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I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that. Votes: 0

Iain Duncan Smith

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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. Votes: 0

Stephen Jay Gould

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Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder. Votes: 0

Suw Charman-Anderson

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Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife! Votes: 0

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know. Votes: 0

Margaret Heffernan

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings. Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson

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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. Votes: 0

Rumi

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From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape. Votes: 0

Rumi

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When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top Votes: 0

Benny Bellamacina

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I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs. Votes: 0

Hattie Carnegie

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The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. Votes: 0

Nicholas D. Kristof

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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down. Votes: 0

John Ortberg

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We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder. Votes: 0

Mitch Daniels

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A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children. Votes: 0

Moby

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Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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When you got a dream, you don't just climb half way up the ladder, you climb all the way to the top Votes: 0

Cher Lloyd

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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall? Votes: 0

Henry Blackaby

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Everyone that steps on to the ladder of success must have hope. Without it, no one is able to reach the top. Votes: 0

Ellen J. Barrier

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I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh. Votes: 0

Jimmy Carr

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And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young. Votes: 0

Hans BÃ¸rli

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Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. Votes: 0

Henry Adams

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Our steel-tipped step-ladder arrows will let us rescue that injured stork that settled down on top of the obelisk and can't fly away! Votes: 0

Robert Bernstein

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Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle. Votes: 0

Mike Caro

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We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. Votes: 0

Robert Mugabe

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Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building! Votes: 0

Dave Ramsey

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When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching Votes: 0

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction Votes: 0

Lily Tomlin

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Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind. Votes: 0

Elena Ferrante

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To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder. Votes: 0

Rose Macaulay

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I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder. Votes: 0

Elena Ferrante

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What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder. Votes: 0

Hugh Jackman

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Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you donât, right? Votes: 0

Dave Eggers

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Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head."-max Votes: 0

James Patterson

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Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality. Votes: 0

Sivananda

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Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. Votes: 0

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement. Votes: 0

Lois Wyse

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The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him... Votes: 0

Abraham Verghese

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You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator. Votes: 0

Stephen Richards

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Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that! Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street. Votes: 0

Penelope Cruz

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People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned. Votes: 0

David Bowie

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Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.... Votes: 0

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Votes: 0

James Allen

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I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building. Votes: 0

Madeleine Albright

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness. Votes: 0

Paul Twitchell

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Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable. Votes: 0

Lana Wachowski

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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class. Votes: 0

Jackie Speier

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When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good Votes: 0

Tony Benn

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Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. Votes: 0

P. G. Wodehouse

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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder. Votes: 0

Ted Cruz

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Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb through thought. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder. Votes: 0

Edmund Phelps

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People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. Votes: 0

Thomas Merton

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Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs. Votes: 0

Joan Jett

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A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend. Votes: 0

John Shirley

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There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. Votes: 0

Andrew Carnegie

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Jesus let the disciples know that they were striving in the wrong direction. They were trying to climb up a ladder that they instead should be climbing down. Votes: 0

Jennifer L. Lane

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At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Sachs

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The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder. Votes: 0

Anita Roddick

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Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms. Votes: 0

Robert Jastrow

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We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men. Votes: 0

Maureen Dowd

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The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong. Votes: 0

Rick Santorum

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You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house. Votes: 0

Paula Yates

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In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it. Votes: 0

Ellen J. Barrier

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I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do. Votes: 0

Nicolas Cage

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The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty. Votes: 0

Diane Ravitch

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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Votes: 0

Thomas Huxley

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It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them. Votes: 0

Nana Ama Amamoo

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If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls. Votes: 0

Arthur Middleton

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Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely. Votes: 0

Tom Baker

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Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top. Votes: 0

Banana Yoshimoto

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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while. Votes: 0

Wally Schirra

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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while Votes: 0

Wally Schirra

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Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind! Votes: 0

Paul Hamilton Hayne

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Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group. Votes: 0

Jim McKay

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There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey

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There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own Votes: 0

Herbert Hoover

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I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder. Votes: 0

Paul Ryan

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God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends. Votes: 0

Tullian Tchividjian

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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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It is easy to climb the ladder of success if one is working on issues and aeas which are not frequented by the masses, provided one is ready to face challenges. Votes: 0

Vishwas Chavan

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Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and smash myself on the rocks below. Votes: 0

Deva Fagan

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Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf. Votes: 0

Victoria Moran

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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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In today's time, no other ''charity'' is acceptable or practical than the ''wisdom'' that can transform the human lifeMeaning the knowledge which can teach a man to climb the ladder of success. Votes: 0

Deep Trivedi

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Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up. Votes: 0

Don Winslow

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You have to become a ladder that other people climb up in their path to success. If you are not ready for that, then you are not ready to be a pastor. Votes: 0

Pastor Adelaja Sunday

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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker. Votes: 0

Wade Boggs

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Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you. Votes: 0

Linda Hirshman

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If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder. Votes: 0

Jo Nesbo

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You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games. Votes: 0

Sourav Ganguly

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I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life. Votes: 0

Paul Ryan

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If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. Votes: 0

Levi Strauss

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There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. Votes: 0

Tullian Tchividjian

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Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsÂbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. Votes: 0

Alan Judd

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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people. Votes: 0

Nikki Giovanni

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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms Votes: 0

Alexandre Dumas

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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. Votes: 0

BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h

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Arts crafts and sciences uplift the world of being and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. Votes: 0

Baha'u'llah

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Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer. Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy. Votes: 0

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder. Votes: 0

Sophia Amoruso

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Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. Votes: 0

J. G. Holland

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Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds meI spotted something between her legs that made me think of you. Votes: 0

Tom Stoppard

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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. Votes: 0

Hedy Lamarr

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Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder. Votes: 0

Richard Benyo

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Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up. Votes: 0

Woody Allen

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To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell? Votes: 0

Gerald Stern

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There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, "It's a shame that he has to die." And Jesus is saying, "Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!! Votes: 0

Sam Kinison

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For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars. Votes: 0

Adriana Trigiani

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I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better. Votes: 0

Jada Pinkett Smith

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When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery. Votes: 0

Niger Innis

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Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past. Votes: 0

Ha-Joon Chang

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Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.

Leif Enger

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If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

James A. Michener

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Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.

John O'Donohue

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I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.

Crowder

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What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.

Marianne Williamson

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Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

P.M. Forni

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I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE...

Janis Joplin

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When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

Colin Powell

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If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

Maria Montessori

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Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

Graham Joyce

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There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around.

Johnny Cash

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I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.

Chuck Klosterman

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As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.

John Climacus

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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

Rabindranath Tagore

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And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House."

George H. W. Bush

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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

Umberto Eco

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Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.

Ron Brown

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I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.

Meryl Streep

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Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.

Lisa Kleypas

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Wait, Saturday night?" The ladder-backed chair creaked and I looked up as he leaned forward to eye me in growing suspicion. "I thought you stayed home." I shrugged and raised one eyebrow at him. "I thought I was human.

Rachel Vincent

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Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!

Anais Nin

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So spirit is both the highest "level" in the holarchy, but it's also the paper on which the entire holarchy is written. It's the highest rung in the ladder, but it's also the wood out of which the entire ladder is made.

Ken Wilber

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The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Leo Tolstoy

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Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm." There were a few moments of silence. "Sage, I've been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?

Richelle Mead

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In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

Zoe Saldana

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In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and communities - because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Let`s teach those people that when they go to work, they get skills, they meet people, they get opportunities, they get to climb the ladder, they get much better off than the person who`s just sitting at home receiving those things.

Benjamin Carson

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There cannot be a new religion. Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance. It's like a ladder on which we climb, leaving one by one, step by step - but not leaving the ladder. All others are required.

Nirmala Srivastava

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In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.

Bonaventure

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God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.

Peter Kreeft

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Iâd been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot).

Anne-Marie Slaughter

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Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

Ellen G. White

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If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

Ameen Rihani

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Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb.

Anne Sweeney

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To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

John Glenn

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'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.

Rob Sheffield

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Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.

Victoria Chang

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It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

David Sedaris

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It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven.

Thomas Guthrie

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B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone's going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you." Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible.

Tim Pratt

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Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.

Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles Dickens

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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.

Alfred North Whitehead

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We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

Michael Pollan

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The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

Ludwig Buchner

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Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

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The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.

Louis Menand

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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

E. M. Forster

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Space is about 100 kilometers away. That's far away"I wouldn't want to climb a ladder to get there"but it isn't that far away. If you're in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

Randall Munroe

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Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause"straight up"I don't get it.

Gordon Korman

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