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• The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Fall, Fire, Desire

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

  Rumi

  Fall, Tree, Together

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• Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

  Iain Banks

  Fall, Age, Looks

  "Excession" by Iain Banks, Bantam Books hardcover edition, (p. 212), 1996.

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• Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.

  Jack Levin

  Fall, Hatred, Prejudice

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• The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Fall, Race

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• To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

  Kenneth Clark

  Fall, Roles, Defying

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• Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

  Myron Uhlberg

  Ocean, Fall, Wind

  Myron Uhlberg (2009). “Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love”, p.29, Bantam

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• Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall, Rocks, Sea

  John Steinbeck (1997). “Tortilla Flat”, p.107, Penguin

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• There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Country, Fall

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  War, Fall, Responsibility

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• We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Fall, History

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• There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That word—tension—has an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other end—is the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Fall, Writing, Animal

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• I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Fall, Thinking, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.

  Donald Curtis

  Fall, Simple, Simplicity

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• An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

  Stanley Wolpert

  Fall, Excellent, British

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• Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

  Ron Suskind

  Fall, Civilization, America

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• We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

  John A. Byrne

  Business, Believe, Fall

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• Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Jesus, Fall

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• It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In fact, the Indian plays much the same role in our society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner’s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.

  Felix S. Cohen

  Fall, Thinking, Air

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• To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.

  Harry Markowitz

  Fall, Risk, Return

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• There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

  Tim McGraw

  Fall, Ups & Downs

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• Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

  Peter Beinart

  Fear, Fall, Thinking

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• I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Dragons, Four Seasons

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• The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out.

  James Rolfe

  Fall, Dying, Montana

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• You ever feel like you know someone so much that they can breathe for you? Like when their chest and your chest rise and fall, they do it together because they have to? That's how it felt. That's how it always felt.

  John Corey Whaley

  Love, Fall, Together

  John Corey Whaley (2014). “Noggin”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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