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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."
"Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?"
"The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way."
"I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have."
"Life is a ladder, it's not a bed"
"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!"
"I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder."
"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."
"Step by step the ladder is ascended."
"Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder."
"I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way."
"Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty"
"Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political and bureaucratic."
"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright."
