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“In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .”

People Feels Fall Fighting White Europe Weak Humble Rage Tendencies Aggression Modest Polite Outburst Tropics

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.”

People Kind Littles Fall Easy Attitude Trouble Satisfied Tendencies Maturity Old People Therapeutic Reassuring

Book:I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home

Source: I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home

“I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises.”

Years Guy Fall Easy Exercise Good Things Teeth Tendencies Brushes Old Guys

Author:Walter Mischel

“I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.”

People Ifs Thinking Matter Fall Existence Laughing Terrible Laughter Unhappy Tendencies Comic Tragic Interpretation Brutal Fall Back Very Sad So Sad Killing Yourself

Author:Woody Allen

“He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.”

Heart Fall Heaven Voice Loses Despair Sight Tendencies Word Of God

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”

Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

“Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from island to mainland and back again. They fall into dreams like rain.”

Stories Dream Fall Universe Wall Bird Rain Shining Tendencies Islands Feathers Back Again Separating Membranes

Book:Iron Hearted Violet

Source: Iron Hearted Violet

“The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.”

Men Body Earth Fall Air He Man Higher Labor Attraction Tendencies Rising Aviation Regions Gravity Predictions Floats

Book:The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings

Source: The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings