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I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of ...

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Isaac DeutscherThe Prophet Armed: Trotsky

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into ...

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'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands...

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Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them so...

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Thank you leaf blowers, for making me look like the world's lamest Ghostbuster. I ain't afraid of no...

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That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

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Jodi PicoultVanishing Acts

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mo...

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Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, ...

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The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horiz...

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The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare wh...

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The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...

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And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its ...

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make he...

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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, whe...

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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ...

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I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of...

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Dorcas wasn't a fast walker. It was difficult for me to keep behind her. I tried to let others, jogg...

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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with y...

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It’s fall coming, I thought, I can smell that sour-molasses smell of silage, clanging the air like a...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great li...

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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themsel...

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I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where...

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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...

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some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after ti...

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but ...

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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he...

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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fe...

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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own ...

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And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling fro...

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He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shal...

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The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.

Its easy to fall for someone that will find humor in every situation.

I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bou...

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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth ...

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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the litt...

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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life...

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You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of...

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I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have...

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If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if peo...

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At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in...

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word...

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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and t...

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And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rit...

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I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significa...

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My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you ...

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We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far sho...

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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding

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Robert BurnsComplete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or...

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything r...

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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and ha...

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...the air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a wit...

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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime af...

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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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T. S. EliotThe Waste Land and Other Poems

I saw old Autumn in the misty mornStand shadowless like silence, listeningTo silence, for no lonely ...

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At what point,” he asked, “does one decide on rafters and a rope? Answer: no points to be had. There...

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Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying pi...

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I ...

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[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, o...

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The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk...

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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orc

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplo...

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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let t...

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But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten...

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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith....

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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Aut...

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United we stand, divided we fall.

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...

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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you unders...

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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off...

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Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,And bask in the garden of paradise.Here is the essence of n...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in ...

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Anne LamottGrace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my...

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I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognit...

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Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create ...

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