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  • Aldous Huxley How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Keats I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • George S. Patton I do not fear failure. I only fear the ''slowing up'' of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ''Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?''
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Burt Young I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
    Burt Young
     
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Edward VIII I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.
    Edward VIII
     
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  • Frank Moore Colby I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.''
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Burgess Owens I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Grandma Moses I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
    Grandma Moses
     
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  • Orson Welles I started at the top and worked my way down.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Doug McLeod I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
    Doug McLeod
     
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  • Zig Ziglar I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Hawking I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Becki Newton I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Ted Turner I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
    Ted Turner
    American media mogul and philanthropist (1938 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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