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• I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.

  Phil Jackson

  Thinking, Patient Person, Errors

  "Sunday Conversation: Phil Jackson". Interview with Jim Gray, www.espn.com. October 3, 2005.

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• Your soulmate can also be your downfall. 

  Guillaume Musso

  Soulmate, Soul Mate, Your My Soulmate

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• I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

  Ruben Blades

  Education, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Not everyone enthusiastic about the future of TV". Bangor Daily News, February 18, 1993.

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• The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

  Greg Ginn

  Predator, Use, Blame

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• I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

  Roy Harper

  Giving, Inspired, Poet

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• Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

  Greg Peterson

  Mother, Nature, Jobs

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• It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Suicide, Running, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

  Carrie Underwood

  Fighting, Chocolate, Battle

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• A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

  Bear Grylls

  Pride, Men, Support

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• Never practice something you're good at. All it will lead to is one major strength with many downfalls.

  Behdad Sami

  Practice, Majors

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• Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

  Laird Hamilton

  Men, Wife, Needs

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the Winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 8, 2014.

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• No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.

  Jason Giambi

  Player, People, Want

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• For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

  Saint Augustine

  Guides, Without You, My Own

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• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

  Phil Hartman

  Careers, Progress, Remarkable

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• The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Decay

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• In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

  Tacitus

  Success, Ambition, Men

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.81, London : Macmillan

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• A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Order, World

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• From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Issues, Important, Triumph

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Trying, Nemesis, Ifs

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• I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

  Leah Remini

  Trying, Good Person, Good Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Hero, Artist, Blood

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 5, 1930.

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• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Mean, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”

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• But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

  Anna Benson

  Giving Up, People, Effort

  "How 'Baseball Wives' star Anna Benson keeps 12-year marriage interesting". www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Power

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• I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Easter, Party, Thinking

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.412, Vintage

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