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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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"The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought."

Men Self Fall
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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity."

Men Fall Power
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Marcus Allen Football Player
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"To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing."

Fall Sports Names
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality."

May Fall Limits
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"If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar."

Fall Passion Fate
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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states."

Fall Leader Ethics
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"An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger."

Fall Identity Stranger
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James Allen Author, Philosopher
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"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."

Fall Energy Weakness
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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done."

Believe Fall Philosophy
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

Fall Air Autumn
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

Fall Struggle Grief
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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
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"It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through &amp past the falls."

Past Fall Fun
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you."

Fall Effort Expectations
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Fall

"Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn."

Light Fall Autumn
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James Herbert Author
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"Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me."

Fall Sea Rain
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate."

Fall Fun Pie
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern."

Fall Strong Self Confidence
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