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"God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own."
"Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms."
"The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall."
"I like to be a little more difficult to nail down that that just inside myself, but when someone's motivations, even if they wind up falling in one side or the other of the debate, when they're personal and also when they're masked by something that only the audience knows is really their motivation, that to me is just what I call entertainment."
"I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am."
"The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne."
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow."
"Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall."
"When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world."
"The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on"
"That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything falls within its iron laws, is very common. Of course our own experience tells us that life is not as monochrome as these thinkers depict it. On the other hand they are very valuable because they alert us to transformations we are likely to take for granted."
"The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther."
"Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you."
"The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face."
"There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air."
"I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it."
"I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in."
"I think it's always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you've learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn't want it any other way."
"I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a # controlfreak , it's hard."
"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
