"When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever."
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"Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice, without death, disease, or conflict."
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"Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it."
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"Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections."
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"Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack."
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"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."
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"Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us."
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"Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty."
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"Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces."
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"Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself."
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"No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow."
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"Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts"
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"We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either."
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"One must first learn to fall if one would fly."
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"It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?"
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"You are the one, I think I'm in love... life has begun."
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"I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon."
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"Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall."
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"Reincarnation is, indeed, the key which unlocks all doors, the universal "combination," before which our manacles fall from our limbs -- the life-line by which the crooked way is made straight."
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"Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere."
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