Famous quotes containing the words falls and/or state:
“To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or standsor gets down.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, they dont want me, they accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, they dont deserve me.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
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