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• Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Memorial Day, Gratitude

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

  W. H. Auden

  Responsibility, Aristocracy, Poetic

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("American Poetry"), (p. 367), 1962.

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• With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

  Saul Bellow

  Hands, Feelings, Novelists

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• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

  Hal Borland

  Sight, New Horizons, October

  Hal Borland (2014). “This Hill, This Valley”, p.255, Open Road Media

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• We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Teamwork, Hero, Sacrifice

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• As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Love, Conceited, America

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.257, Vintage

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• We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Morning, Successful, Blow

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• We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Men, Soldier, Honor

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• I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

  Charlie Sheen

  Blind, Shots, Blindness

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• When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Motivational, Sports, Fall

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• Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

  Etienne de La Boetie

  Freedom, Fall, Hands

  "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.

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• Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

  Bob Marley

  Encouraging, Memorial Day, Freedom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

  Minot Judson Savage

  Uplifting, Death, Memorial Day

  Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”

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• Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

  Rita Rudner

  Love, Funny, Anniversary

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• When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Nature, Men, Gone

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• Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

  Ida B. Wells

  Race, Afros, Shows

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• I've fallen in love with baseball.

  Nick Jonas

  Baseball

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• Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

  Henry Taylor

  Ambition, Literature, May

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.132

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• I had fallen in love with California.

  DeForest Kelley

  California

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• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Lighthouse, Dangerous, Reefs

  "At last!; More Lance Cairns; and Less Navjot Sidhu" by Lawrence Booth, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2003.

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• I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

  Tom Snyder

  Voice, Conversation, My Own

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Play, Different, Way

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

  "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Criminal Mind

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• If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.153, Verso

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