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«It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Dictators,
Paradox,
Power,
Speech
| Keywords:
attaining, climbed, dictator, free speech, ladder, paradox, suppressed
«May the devil make a ladder of your backbone - While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell»
Author: Old Irish toast
| About:
Devil
| Keywords:
apples, backbone, Garden of, In the Garden, ladder, picking, pickings, The Garden
«Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.»
«Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| About:
Leadership,
Management
| Keywords:
climbing, determines, efficiency, ladder, ladders, leaning, leans, lean against, management, wall, with efficiency
«If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
faster, ladder, ladders, leaning, leans, leant, lean against, Lean on Me, wall
«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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptable, accessible, competitor, descending, honors, Jacob, ladder, notoriety, renown, vaudeville
«Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficu»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
altogether, argumentative, disputatious, inarticulate, ladder, talky, unintelligible
«She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.»
«In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Now that my ladder's goneI must lie down where all ladders startIn the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.»
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