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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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Stephen Leacock
Canadian
Economist
Born:
Dec 30
,
1869
Died:
Mar 28
,
1944
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
Inspirational
You
Sunshine
Will
Face
Fall
Shadows
Toward
Always
Behind
Your
Keep
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Time
Fall
Every
Every Time
Our
Rising
Never
Glory
Greatest
Greatest Glory
Falling
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.
Kirsten Dunst
Sad
Life
Love
Time
Relationship
You
People
Confused
Fall
Control
Never
Most
Because
Just
Happens
Your
Who
Fun
Even
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
Ellen G. White
World
Fear
Will
Men
Fall
Duty
Sold
Though
Bought
True
Sin
Pole
Name
Call
Greatest
Souls
Heavens
Want
Stand
Who
Whose
Conscience
Right
Inmost
Honest
Honest Men
Needle
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time
Failure
Fall
Living
Every
Every Time
Lies
Rising
Never
Glory
Greatest
Greatest Glory
Falling
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
Life
Love
Dreams
You
My Life
Fall
Tendency
Know
Apart
Awake
Sleep
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Brad Henry
Work
Faith
You
Yourself
Work Hard
Believe In Yourself
Will
Rest
Fall
Own
Nothing
Believe
Ability
Accomplish
Cannot
Place
Your
Hard
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
Great
Lie
People
Will
Big
Fall
Easily
Great Masses
More
Small
Masses
Than
Victims
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs
Life
Death
Me
Failure
Fear
Pride
Face
Important
Big
Fall
Tool
Everything
Embarrassment
Only
Remembering
Almost
Soon
Almost Everything
Most
Dead
Make
Because
Important Tool
Leaving
Encountered
Truly
Expectations
Just
The Most Important
Choices
Help
Away
Ever
Things
External
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
Motivational
Life
You
Fall
Own
Design
Else
Guess
Someone
Plan
Much
Planned
Your
Chances
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