"To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first."
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"A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king."
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"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."
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"You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore."
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"I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep."
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"There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself."
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"Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk."
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"You won't get hurt skiing if you don't fall."
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"Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!"
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"I will stumble, I will fall down, but I will not be moved; I will make mistakes, I will face heartache, but I will not be moved."
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"Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may."
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"I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow."
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"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
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"Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment."
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"There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with."
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"The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another."
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"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."
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"You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time."
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"Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf."
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"Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place."
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