Quotes with falls

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  • Boris Sidis If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Bruce Springsteen If the angels are unkind or the season is dark
    Or if in the end
    Love just falls apart
    Well then here's to our destruction
    Baby let me be your soul driver.
    Human Touch (1992) Soul Driver
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • George Orwell 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.
    Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bernard De Voto It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.
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  • Ben Schwartz It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Tama Janowitz Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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  • Hilaire Belloc Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Lucille Ball Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Basil of Caesarea Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • William Shakespeare O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Eliot Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Barry McGee Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Oscar Wilde The Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
    In Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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