#falls

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#salem-falls #love

If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

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When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. ↗

— Bill Frist

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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. ↗

— Lucille Ball

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But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls. ↗

— Edwin Booth

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I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up. ↗

— Mary Cassatt

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I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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