#fall

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

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If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

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I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood. ↗

— Cass Elliot

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My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic. ↗

— Tyler Florence

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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

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