Robert Downey, Jr.
Actor, Producer
"Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there."
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Ben Cohen
Entrepreneur
"We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's"
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."
Emma Goldman
Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
"Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom."
Cornel West
Philosopher
"The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom."
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"When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself."
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"A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable."
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"When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top."
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"I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there."
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"Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true."
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"Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact."
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"I am a very bottom-up thinker."
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"I'm very pleased when the smartest people come [to the U.S.] and almost never pleased when the very bottom of the mental barrel comes in."
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"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
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"One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words."
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"One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom."
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"I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about."
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"There's plenty of room at the bottom."
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"It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top."
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"To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up."
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"There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes."
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"There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages."
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"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
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"The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom."
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"At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father."
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