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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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No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage ...

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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacab...

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The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it h...

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I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's n...

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We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ...

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Everything does fall. It must be gravity.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also...

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Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pre...

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There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the adva...

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If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could ...

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Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environm...

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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would su...

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There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac...

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The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold men who in th...

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Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;Lengthen night and shorten day;Every leaf speaks bliss to meF...

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All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladde...

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In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can e...

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AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a bre...

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Ernest DowsonThe Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind ...

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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet a...

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Eudora WeltyThe Collected Stories

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end o...

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fad...

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Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone wou...

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You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature ha...

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The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro...

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Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

The gold and scarlet leaves that littered the countryside in great drifts whispered and chuckled amo...

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Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street.....

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Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thu...

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Harper LeeGo Set a Watchman

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of it...

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The goldenrod is yellow,The corn is turning brown...The trees in apple orchardsWith fruit are bendin...

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The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into it...

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Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we...

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

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