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fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
variables
There is no such thing as a free variable. Alan Perlis
variables looks problem
I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it. Bill Parcells
variables sometimes conviction
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest. Ambrose Bierce
variables way different
To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables. B. F. Skinner
variables interconnected knows
Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know. Garrett Hardin
variables environment adaptation
But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage. Feist
variables process gravity
Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on. Laurel Clark
variables mutation language
Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English. James F. Cooper
variables opinion
Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves. Luc de Clapiers
toxic deadline publishing
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic. Jan Karon
toxic-waste dancing singing
I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation. Chuck Palahniuk
toxic-waste gods-creation waste
I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.
toxic waist witnessed
I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck. Douglas Brinkley
toxic-waste america issues
The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment. Jimmy Carter
toxic-waste toxic waste
Have you been playing in toxic waste lately? James Patterson
toxic-waste guy soldier
Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?
toxic rebellion believer
A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief. James Macdonald
toxic-waste america cleaning
Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites Fred Thompson