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• Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Powerful, Fall, Self

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another.

  Robert Musil

  Art, Fall, Curves

  Robert Musil (2017). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.302, Pan Macmillan

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• Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.

  Michael Cunningham

  Art, War, Fall

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• I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

  Leonard Cohen

  Fall, Survival, Stories

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view the phenomena from a sufficiently high biological standpoint. To me, at least, they seem to attach too much importance to individual rulers and soldiers, and to particular wars, policies, religions, and customs; while at the same time they make little attempt to extract the fundamental causes of national success or failure.

  Ronald Ross

  War, Fall, Science

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• The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Fall, Grandparent

  "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.

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• This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.

  Veronica Roth

  Fall, Steps, Tobias

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• The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

  Len Goodman

  Fall, Lucky, Truth Is

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• Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249

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• I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

  Martin Scorsese

  Fall, Sowing, Empires

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• Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Toss, Poet

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.51, Booklassic

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• Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Real, Fall

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• The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society's image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay and lose its vitality, however, the culture does not long survive.

  Fred Polak

  Flower, Fall, Long

  "The Image of the Future" by Fred Polak,Elsevier Sdentific Publishing Company, (p. 19), 1973.

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• There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Fall, Warrior

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.15, Bottom of the Hill

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