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• NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Philosophy, Science, Apples

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.149, 谷月社

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• I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera.

  Stephen Colbert

  Fun, Cameras, Down And

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• He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Book, Reflection, Bed

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation...the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

  Pete Hegseth

  Wall, Believe, Our Generation

  "Meet Kagan’s Astroturf Military Attackers" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• A fine shiver coursed over my skin. "Seth?" "Yeah?" "You were in my dream." One amber-colored eye opened. "Please tell me we were naked." I rolled my eyes. "You're such a perv." He sighed mournfully as he wiggled closer. "I'll take that as a no." "You'd be correct." Unable to fall back to sleep, I started chewing on my lip. So many worries surfaced at once that my brain spun.

  J. Lynn

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All your possessions will be outwards: your wife, your husband, your children, your body - your body is outside you; your mind - your mind is outside you. The only thing that is not outside you is the witnessing. Just the watchfulness - that is your buddha. Identification means losing witnessing, falling into the trap of attachment. That is our misery, that is our slavery.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Husband, Mean

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• We stand or fall by television.

  E. B. White

  Television

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• When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Color, Light, Rainbow

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• Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Winter, Tree, Storm

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

  Lee Ryan

  Thinking, Dying, Wake Up

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• Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Death, Summer

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• When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Death, Summer, Lying

  "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

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• We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.

  Ajahn Chah

  Giving Up, Rain, Teaching

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• Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

  Mason Cooley

  May, Cushions

  "City Aphorisms: Twelfth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled. So people can fall down: it doesn’t mean they can’t get up again and keep going.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Mean, People, Bumps

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• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Thinking, Air

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• To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

  James Joyce

  Triumph

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

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• Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

  Helen Keller

  Wall, Land, Enchantment

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• If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

  Joyce Meyer

  Priorities, Firsts, Making Time

  Joyce Meyer (2014). “The Confident Mom: Guiding Your Family with God's Strength and Wisdom”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

  John C. Maxwell

  Emotion, Behavior, Take Control

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• Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."

  Frederic Farrar

  Crush, Prayer, Two

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• Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Falling In Love, Love You, Writing

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• From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Home, America, House

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• When you are falling --- Dive!

  Joseph Campbell

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• If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.

  Evel Knievel

  Trying, Matter, Get Up

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