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"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." »James Grover Thurber
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"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week." »Will Rogers
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"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat." »Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?" »Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
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"Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?" »Woody Allen, Without Feathers
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"fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees." »David Letterman
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"Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for." »Amos Tversky
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"There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 29, 2004
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"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher
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"Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity." »M. C. Escher
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"In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir
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"It is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere,
A lily of a day
is fairer in May
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant of flower and light,
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be." »Benjamin Johnson
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"It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be." »Benjamin Johnson
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"If you had to list the different types of haircuts in order of how warm they kept the head, you'd probably put the flat-top down near the bottom. But you know, I bet it's surprisingly warm." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again." »Judith Viorst
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"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church." »Ferdinand Magellan
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"Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center." »Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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"Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on." »Benjamin King
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"If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?" »Author Unknown
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"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall." »Epictetus
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"If you don't stand up for something, then you'll fall for anything." »God's Little Instruction Book
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"He that is down can fall no lower." »Samuel Butler
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"Whenever you fall, pick up something" »Oswald Theodore Avery
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"Don't fall before you're pushed." »English Proverb
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"fall down seven times, get up eight." »Japanese Proverb
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