"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."
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"One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up."
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"Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love."
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"The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards."
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"From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall."
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"Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal."
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"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
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"It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it."
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"I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging."
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"As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall."
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"There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them."
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"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
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"What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?"
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"It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level."
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"Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah"
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"I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face."
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"...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain."
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"Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!"
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"Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place."
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"The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce."
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