#fall

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. ↗

— Titus Livius

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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction. ↗

— Gary Locke

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Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out. ↗

— Jay London

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Into each life some rain must fall. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ↗

— Lucretius

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. ↗

— Lucretius

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