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«To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.»
Author: Cliff Fadiman
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annual, arithmetic, commuter, commuters, consents, consultation, rings, timetable, timetables, tumble
«Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.»
«Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(Actress, Producer)
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«The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork»
Author: Wilson Mizner
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«The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bluffer, fall over, tumble, tumbling
«It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.»
«The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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bug, depositing, deposits, dung, hatch, The Critic, tumble, tumbled, tumbles, tumbling
«Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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be on, Bona, bona fide, FIDE, rough-and-tumble, tumble, tumbled, tumbles, tumbling