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“As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is in retrospect -- that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.”

Children Fall Pure Jungle Primal Retrospect

Author:Jean Liedloff

“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.”

Real Self Fall Social Parent Term Figures Authority Expectations Expected Selfish Dirty Destructive Expecting Greedy Gross Elders Self Destructive Reversal Anti Social Authority Figures

Author:Jean Liedloff

“Even monkeys fall out of trees.”

Fall Tree Monkeys

Author:J. F. Lawton

“A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.”

Should Wells Stills Philosophy Whole Use Fall Ill Philosopher Faculty Neglect Judged Liable Frailty Eccentricity Devotee

Author:John Grier Hibben

“Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.”

“Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.”

“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 wordtensionhas 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 endis the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?”

Writing Littles Long Doe Ends Matter Fall Next House Animal Pieces Reader Ideals Sentences Tension Length Interiors Rope Insistence Gauges Rise And Fall Does It Matter

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain.”

Mind Long Fall Crosses Gold Clean Autumn Fountain Washing Drought Affluence

Author:R. S. Thomas

“A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.”

Light Earth Fall Water Hours Keys Species Wave Flats Gravity Minors Belly Harbors Caress Rush Hour

Book:The Blaze of the Poui: Poems

Source: The Blaze of the Poui: Poems

“In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.”

Soul Light Death Fall Memories Behinds Vision Forever Mountain Mercy Blind Enormous Height Slips Betray Glances Bleak Rendering Climbers

Author:Clark Ashton Smith

“The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.”

“The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.”

Humans Order Fall Challenges Human Beings Economy Capitalism Injustice Currents Genuine Factors Rejects Willingness Something Better Irrationality

Author:Jim Stanford

“You must make your choice whether to hold on to some thing which cannot save you, or let go, and fall into the hands of the Lord.”

Hands Choices Fall Lord Letting Go

Author:Ichabod Spencer

“No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism?”

Doe Self Philosophy Certain Values Fall Left Party Economic Students Wings Champion Libertarianism Centre Right Wing Left Wing Self Reliant Economic Value

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero.”

Fall Mistake Models Zero Stock Price

Book:Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

Source: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

“Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.”

Ifs Looks Philosophy Eye Values Fall Doubt Decided Ultimate Nerves Nothingness Lectures Resumes Ominous Hydra

Author:Ludwig Boltzmann

“The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.”

World Two Fall Consumers Goods Laptops Ipads Smartphones Stools Sporks

Book:I Can Make You Hate

Source: I Can Make You Hate

“Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.”

Hands Political Values Humanity Fall Technology Risk Economic Instruments Superstitions Extensions Economic Power

Author:Nicola Cabibbo

“In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.”

May Mean Long Enough Facts Running Fall Company Risk Cost Function Spending Corporate Capability Portions Long Runs Commodity Catastrophe Entwined Overspending

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.”

Fall Independence Doctrine

Author:Huangbo Xiyun

“Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.”

People Ifs Looks Stories Values Fall Wish Ability Taken Possession Tales Fallen Encounters Continuing Idealism Embarrassment

Author:Walter Benjamin

“Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany

“I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.”

“Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.”

Needs Should Doe Ideas Hard Dream Earth Beautiful Fall Virtue Hard Work Blue Honorable Down To Earth

Author:Xi Jinping

“Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.”

Thinking Faces Fall Chance Risk Limits Findings Series Endless Exploring Take A Chance Taking Risks

Book:An Improvised Life: A Memoir

Source: An Improvised Life: A Memoir

“People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!”

People Heart Faces Fall Grows Challenges Failure Taste Ill Champion Fearful

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.”

Years Book Ends Film Moving Fall Culture Creative Favors Print Keep Moving Creative Work Distributors

Book:Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Source: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

Love May Soul Sometimes Fall Walks Beauty Loneliness Walking Solitude Hiking Being Alone Trekking Lonliness Long Walks Soul Beauty Walking Alone Walking Forward

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.”

Men Humans Children Light Earth Faces Fall Human Beings Flower Bird Revelations Old Man Countryside Wordsworth

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God's fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created.”

People Purpose Turns Fall Hell Creation Position Originals Rebel Fall Back

Book:The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

Source: The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough.”

Ifs Hard Enough Fall Training Training Hard

Author:Michelle Trachtenberg

“Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.”

“Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.”

Men Doe Fall Games Language Nations Social Fit Determine Belonging Arrangements Entering Social Life Impervious

Author:Alain Finkielkraut

“Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.”

Humans Fall Memories Pieces Information Endure Outcomes Formal Coats Closets Hook Formal Education New Information

Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature

Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature

“Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case - which didn't exactly fill me with confidence.”

Ifs Country School Mother Fall Cases Study College Drama Lucky Degrees Down And University Fall Back Birmingham

Author:Tamsin Greig

“For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.”

Hands Guy Fall Greater Hero Triumph Humiliation

Author:Quintin Jardine

“To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!”

Dream Beautiful Fall Land Embrace Graves Bliss Our Dreams Crave Cradle Finland New Hope Peninsulas

Author:Aleksis Kivi

“A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens Made Fall Asks Walks Essentials Survival Arise Guru Crutches

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended.”

Littles Together Fall Love Is Break Morning Pieces Broken Terrible Warmth Love Is Like Moisture Terrible Day

Author:Subcomandante Marcos

“I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.”

Two Problem Seems Moving Fall Air Paper Blue Illness Showers Complaints Toilets Traveller Tissues Permaculture Affluent

Author:Bill Mollison

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”

Fall My Own Mistake Knowledge Get Up Making Mistakes Fallibility

Book:Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885

Source: Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885

“If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.”

Ifs World Giving Today Hate Fall Heaven Beats Crosses Warrior Tall Bores Nails Great War Traders Great Warrior Truth Will Prevail

Author:Baldur von Schirach

“Faith is not something that you can cultivate. If it happens to you, it happens, if it doesn't happen to you it doesn't happen, that's all. Does it mean to say - "I have to just sit and wait and someday it will fall upon me?" No, it is just that if you understand the fundamentals of living here, in this existence, you will see, for anything to happen, you must create the right kind of situation.”

Ifs Kind Mean Doe Happens Fall Waiting Existence Situation Fundamentals Someday

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall.”

Made Song Fall Cities Dolls Dresden Slaughterhouses Slaughterhouse 5 Porcelain

Author:Brian Viglione

“For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.”

People Men War Fall Heaven Chance Fire Accidents Cosmic Inevitability Descending Asteroids

Author:David Zindell

“Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.”

Kind Different Hard Fall Lines Vision Summer Spring Seasons Eternity Winter Track Stuck Repeats Los Angeles Blur Spring Summer Fall And Winter

Author:Kris Kidd

“Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.”

Believe Humans Stills Matter Order Fall Causes Sun Sky Produce Birth Increase Appearance Millionaire Human Society Comets

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“Well, then, Lord Jesus! I will creep if I cannot walk; I will take hold of Thy word. When I stumble, Thou wilt support me; when I fall, Thou wilt hold out Thy cross, and help me with it to rise again, until at length I reach the place where Thou art, and with all my weaknesses and wants, cast myself into Thy bosom.”

Ifs Want Wells Art Helping Fall Jesus Walks Lord Support Weakness Crosses Casts Help Me Length Creeps Bosoms Support Me

Book:Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies

Source: Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies

“Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.”

Ends Done Play Death Fall Comedy Curtains Falling Down

Book:Poems and songs

Source: Poems and songs

“Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.”

Way Years Stills Self Faces Fall Sleep Consciousness Watches Five Wife Twenties Deeper My Wife Five Years Unconscious Fascinated Twenty Five Sleepers

Author:David Bottoms

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