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• I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. (Harry Truman) [men/women/top/enthusiasm]
• Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. (Francis Beaumont) [top]
• It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. (Arnold Bennett) [top]
• Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. (Italo Calvino) [top]
• 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) [top/mountain/more/punishment]
• What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. (Raymond Chandler) [matter/top/high/water]
• My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken] (Jackie Chan) [eyes/top/soul & body]
• It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. (William Cobbett) [reach/top]
• If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. (Emily Dickinson) [top/poetry]
• From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. (Emile Durkheim) [top/greed/find/reality]
• No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [top/give]
• Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. (Dag Hammarskjold) [measure/mountain/top/willpower]
• There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. (Jascha Heifetz) [top/reach]
• The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. (Napoleon Hill) [top]
• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. (John Keats) [water/top]
• Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with. (Myriam Miedzian) [top/priority/power/being]
• These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. (Franklin Roosevelt) [top/faith/more]
• You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out. (George Bernard Shaw) [top/science/politics/science]
• I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near. (Margaret Thatcher) [top/recipe/willpower/top]
• He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. (Mark Twain) [top]
• Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. (Virginia Woolf) [idleness/truth/top]
• I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [top]
• I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are. (Peta Wilson) [top/time]
• I don't have the self-confidence to walk around in a miniskirt and heels and a tube top. I'm still trying to learn to love and accept my body. (Mandy Moore) [top/love/soul & body]
• I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down. (Adriana Lima) [fashion/top/top]
• The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. (Luther Allison) [blues/top/walls/blues]
• I need someone physically stronger than me... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down. (Angelina Jolie) [top/take]
• A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top. (Jennifer Aniston) [top]
• My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die. (Kate Bush) [top/television]
• There are only five top models in the world: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Claudia Schiffer. (Valeria Mazza) [top]
• I thought I finally beat a top 20, but definitely it's sweet to beat the number three seed. (Martina Hingis) [top]

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