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• Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

  Jeremy Gutsche

  Complacency, Architecture

  Jeremy Gutsche (2009). “Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change”, Gotham

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• I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

  Ruben Blades

  Education, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Not everyone enthusiastic about the future of TV". Bangor Daily News, February 18, 1993.

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• I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

  Carrie Underwood

  Fighting, Chocolate, Battle

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• Never practice something you're good at. All it will lead to is one major strength with many downfalls.

  Behdad Sami

  Practice, Majors

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• A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

  Bear Grylls

  Pride, Men, Support

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

  Tacitus

  Success, Ambition, Men

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.81, London : Macmillan

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• I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

  Questlove

  Artist, Celebrate, Feels

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• The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Decay

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• From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Issues, Important, Triumph

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Order, World

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• The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Diets

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.303, Vintage

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• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

  Phil Hartman

  Careers, Progress, Remarkable

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• A thought may arise: 'It's okay now, but it's going to be different when I step out the door'. Already you are anticipating your downfall. Recognise these as just thoughts. You can just watch them, feel their pull yet observe them as a movement in consciousness. Stay put as formless awareness.

  Mooji

  Doors, Different, Watches

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• Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Hero, Artist, Blood

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 5, 1930.

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• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Mean, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”

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• My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Trying, Nemesis, Ifs

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• Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

  Chuck Todd

  Doe, Orthodoxy, Sticks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Power

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• But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

  Anna Benson

  Giving Up, People, Effort

  "How 'Baseball Wives' star Anna Benson keeps 12-year marriage interesting". www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

  Simone Schwarz-Bart

  Strong Women, Betrayal, Smart

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• I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Easter, Party, Thinking

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.412, Vintage

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• Cleland was the victim of his own downfall.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Victim, Commentators

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• I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hours

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• I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

  Richard Armitage

  Pride, Bits

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• The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.

  Mila Kunis

  Rejection, Competition, Pressure

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