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• When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.

  Marlene Dumas

  Falling In Love, Art, Pain

  Marlene Dumas, Gianni Romano, Angela Vettese (2003). “Marlene Dumas: suspect”, Skira - Berenice

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• I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Wake Up, Fainting, Minutes

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• A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.

  John Berridge

  Christian, Sunshine, Fire

  John Berridge (1838). “The works of ... John Berridge, with an enlarged memoir of his life [ed.] by R. Whittingham”, p.396

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• Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

  Jackson Browne

  Falling In Love, Love You, Inconvenient

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• I actually had to leave the country for infractions to fall off my record.

  Paul Provenza

  Country, Records

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• Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

  Fannie Flagg

  Love You, Get Better, Spouse

  Fannie Flagg (2006). “Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• I grew up in one of the biggest high schools in the world, and that's the Disney Channel. Everybody was falling in love with each other or not liking each other, and it was exhausting and I was the shy one in the corner. And now I'm so opinionated, and I don't have time for the cattiness. I have good people around me, and I'm glad I'm at the place I'm in. I wish I was there back then.

  Selena

  Falling In Love, School, People

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• The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Pieces, World, Minutes

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• The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Vices, Action

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.43, Aeterna Press

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• There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.

  Rosa Parks

  Opposites, Steps, Easy

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• But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Hands, Weapons

  "Decision Points". Book by George W. Bush, books.google.ru. November 10, 2010.

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• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

  Isaac Asimov

  Gentleman, Curiosity, Rising

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

  John Quincy Adams

  Issues, Liberty, Principles

  John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848”, p.541, Library of America

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• I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.

  Lana Del Rey

  Falling In Love, Class, People

  "Lana Del Rey hoped music industry would make her more friends" by Leah Simpson, www.digitalspy.com. January 29, 2012.

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• When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

  Karl Marx

  Curves, Train

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• We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

  Pericles

  Needs, Delight, May

  "Eternal Greece". Book by Rex Warner, 1961.

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• You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

  Louise Erdrich

  Knowing, People, Invisible

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• I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Why Not

  Jorge Luis Borges (2013). “Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

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• When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

  P. D. James

  Wall, Sat, Heard

  "Crime novelist P.D. James dies at 94" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2014.

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• When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Saving Up, Lunch, Energy

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• If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

  Feist

  Wall, Stills, Ifs

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• All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Order, Purpose, World

  Donald McChesney, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1968). “A Hopkins Commentary: an Explanatory Commentary on the Main Poems, 1876-89”

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• It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

  Tony Judt

  Men, Healthy, Luck

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• Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on this earth, all forms of life were in a state of immortality. There was no death in the world; death entered after the fall.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Animal, World, Earth

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• If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.

  Max Stirner

  Ignorance, Men, Self

  "The False Principle of our Education". Book by Max Stirner, p. 23, 1842.

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