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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.
margin night time ways
We have to find ways to win. There's not much margin for error. Just because it's not your night, you can't say it's not your night. We don't have enough time for that. Mike Dunham
margins
The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan, Arun Sarin
margins
I like being on the margins. You work better there. Billy Childish
margins optimistic pc positive profit quarter second sector third trend tv weak
The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.
margin safety satisfied
We want to be satisfied the plant's safety margin is not compromised,
margins power pricing profit remain
Because pricing power has disappeared, profit margins will remain under significant pressure.
margin satisfied surprised victory
I'm a little surprised and very satisfied about (the margin of victory). Ai Miyazato
marginal
In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft. Bill O'Reilly
marginal power
There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing. Sebastian Coe
maximum-number numbers people
Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve. Dick Cheney
maximum offending otherwise people reader supply
If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything. Amity Shlaes
maximum pushing troops using
We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility. John Spratt
maximum percent
It can be a maximum of 25 percent of what you owe.
maximum needed win
For us to win we needed to (capitalize). We needed to have maximum possessions. Sean Taylor
maximum men qualified seeking shortage somehow women
If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs. James Sinegal
maximum moral sympathy technical
We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.
maximum moment
We are in the moment of the maximum uncertainty. Fausto Bertinotti
maximum-ride captured
Oh great. Yoda captured us. James Patterson
moderate shows successes
Moderate successes are good, because if they do better than the shows they replaced, it's still a success for the networks.
moderate past strategies
Moderate strategies in the past had moderate results. Marc Johnson
moderate strengthen
Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims. Gijs de Vries
moderate
As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side. Barton Gellman
moderate polarized
Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress. Mike Ross
moderate reveal sales slowing
Any slowing in sales will reveal moderate overbuilding.
moderate suburban urban
Northridge was a moderate earthquake, and it wasn't an urban hit; it was a suburban hit.
moderate seeing
You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes. John Sebastian
moderate specter
Specter is the key, and then it comes down to moderate Republicans and where we were in May.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule