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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.
confusion becoming awake
Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly. Chogyam Trungpa
confusion experience needs
I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us. Byron Katie
confusion ruins facts
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
confusion humanity impossible
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change. Bertolt Brecht
confusion newton mathematics
Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics. Benjamin Haydon
confusion dealing opens people sure whenever
Whenever you have confusion like this in the marketplace, it opens up opportunities for fraud. People will really have to make sure they're dealing with reputable entities. Gail Shearer
confusion let-it-go goes-on
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. Charles de Lint
confusion long unity
An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity Charles Ives
confusion confusing use
Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public. Charles Francis Richter
democracy speech committees
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. Alan Bullock
democracy public-opinion input
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it]. Alan Blinder
democracy
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Al Smith
democracy knows ifs
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. David McCullough
democracy humans corporate
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both. David Korten
democracy way communism
Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
democracy unions leon
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy! C. Wright Mills
democracy boards cynic
Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards. Carl Icahn
democracy soil wealth
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. Ai Weiwei