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My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up… — Unknown Author
Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live… — Bokar Rinpoche
O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls… — Josephine Bakhita
I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of… — Yvon Chouinard
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from… — Bill Gates
I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This… — Bill Gates
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top. — Harry S. Truman
Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it… — John Wooden
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces… — W. Edwards Deming
Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left… — Barack Obama
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down. — Paul Hawken
We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. — Oscar Peterson
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short. — Peter Charles Newman
There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our… — Richard Koch
I will be the one lifting that trophy, not Paolo Maldini. Imagine me hoisting the trophy. It is an image I have in my mind… — Steven Gerrard
For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong… — Thora Birch
The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. — Bobby Baldwin
To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns,… — Garry Kasparov
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move… — Robert Harris
Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but… — Joe Perry
Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites. — Nina Blackwood
If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing… — Jack Handey
EACH AND EVERY master, regardless of the era or place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading… — Morihei Ueshiba
Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director… — Satyajit Ray

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