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Tag Name "Ladder" (223)

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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.
Ron White
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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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Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?
Dave Eggers
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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.
Ambrose Bierce
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Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
Rose of Lima
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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.
Nicki Minaj
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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.
David Mitchell
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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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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
Rumi
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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.
Niger Innis
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When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston one goes to the Bowery.
Djuna Barnes
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And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Andrew Carnegie
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The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world.
Rumi
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You can't just go gay, its not like buying a ladder.
Noel Fielding
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The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
Donald Rumsfeld
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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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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.
Omar Suleiman
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
Ed Markey
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope
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For every snake, there is a ladder for every ladder,a snake
Salman Rushdie
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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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In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.
Edward Brooke
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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