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  • Robert Burns Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Lord George Byron Suspicion is a heavy armour, and I with its own weight impedes more than protects.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Wordsworth That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Aristotle The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Source: Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • O. J. Simpson The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
    O. J. Simpson
     
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  • Bertolt Brecht The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
    Source: Mother Courage and Her Children
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Byron Howard The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Gore Vidal The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Albert Camus The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Fred Astaire The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Bayard Taylor The hollows are heavy and dank
    With the steam of the Goldenrods.
    Source: The Guests of Night
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Baba Kalyani The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Napoleon Hill The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Douglas Adams The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Aaron Hill The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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