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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.
maintain point travel
We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time. David Heymann
main
I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise. Gretchen Rubin
maintaining-the-status-quo innovation needs
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. David Rockefeller
maintain ways
Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.
main theater whenever
Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.
maintain played playing score trying
We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.
main
'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity. Andy Wachowski
mainly providing shower
We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms. Robert G. Allen
maintain rather stadium
We would rather not maintain the new stadium if we didn't have to.
profit
The profit of the one is the profit of the other. Frederic Bastiat
profit jimmy percent
Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I. Alan Ladd
profit putting
We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.
profit invitations
You do not require an invitation to make profits. Dhirubhai Ambani
profit
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success. Ludwig von Mises
profitable
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. Susan George
profit humans knows
I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere. Alfred Lord Tennyson
profit puts work
We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze. Frank Adams
profit second seem
If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them. D. H. Lawrence
reason rhetoric foe
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
reason
Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest. Charles Spurgeon
reason event-horizon lacking
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Alan Moore
reason accepting
Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
reason take-me happens
Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here. Buddy Rice
reason shares sold
The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11. Jeffrey Skilling
reason violent expeditions
The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason. William Shakespeare
reason inequality seems
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.
reason
Love reasons without reason.
taking waiting
We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.
taking
years and years. He was not taking anything.
taking
The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal. Lynsey Addario
taking
She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.
taking
We are concerned. We are taking the appropriate measures, but we are not panicking.
taking
The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position. Nancy Grace
taking useful
The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis. David Ramsey
taking vote
We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.
taking
I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
thinking vanity
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking two glory
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
thinking people remember
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking daring finished
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking words-of-wisdom secret
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
volume
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. Jerry Brown
volume
For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.
volumes
With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.
volume
It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.
volume written
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. Grazia Deledda
volume knows
The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all. Johnny Thunders
volume worthy humankind
Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied. William Ellery Channing
volume
Nature is a volume of which God is the author. William Harvey
volume stomach cookery
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. William Penn