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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.
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image. Alan Alda
management function greater
The smaller the function, the greater the management. C. Northcote Parkinson
man poetry
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry. Brian Trehearne
manipulative
I'm not naturally manipulative. Benjamin Netanyahu
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
manners cowardice characteristics
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett
manhattan
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! Ed Koch
management terrorism torture
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy
rise-above reason rise-above-it
Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it. Aiden Wilson Tozer
rise-above
You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above. Bruce Springsteen
rises
Let's see which one rises to the top.
rise-to-power nazism today
If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. Adolf Hitler
rise-to-power poison nazism
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
rises
He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first. Ariel Sharon
rises
We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines. Hugh Johnson
rise schools stadiums tax
Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque! Ralph Nader
rise technical
I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.
took
We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.
took
Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there. Lindsey Vonn
took worked
When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.
took
Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this. Eric Norris
took
When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.
took
I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild. Trinny Woodall
took
Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live. James E. Faust
took
She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.
took tour
Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.