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  • Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

    Jesus   Book   Teaching  
  • My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

    Noise   Made   Downfall  
    "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by A. S. Kline, (Book XXVIII, Ch. 2), 1848 - 1850.
  • Greetings, O Great Gazoo. How nice of you to join us here on planet Earth again. (Cael) Thanks, Barney. How’s Betty and Bam Bam doing? (Acheron) Great, if I could only get them away from Wilma and Pebbles. Those women are nothing but trouble. (Cael) Nah, they’re good women. It’s the ones in red who are always the downfall of good men. (Acheron)

    Nice   Men   Good Man  
  • After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad.

    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It's never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.

    "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Some eminent witnesses of God's truth believe that before the downfall of Antichrist [which virtually all Reformers construed to be Romanism], England must once again bow down her fair neck to his proud usurping yoke and foot.

    Believe   Feet   Bows  
    Source: www.libertymagazine.org
  • [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

  • I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.

    "Sunday Conversation: Phil Jackson". Interview with Jim Gray, www.espn.com. October 3, 2005.
  • Your soulmate can also be your downfall.

  • I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.

    Downfall   Diets  
    Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.303, Vintage
  • I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

    Believe   Long   People  
    Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.725, Modern Library
  • The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

    Predator   Use   Blame  
  • Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

    Views   World   Matter  
    Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”
  • Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even if it leads to electoral downfall.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

    Drama   Heart   Age  
    Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books
  • The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss of power could lead to repercussions in Russian society.

    Source: www.rferl.org
  • When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.

    War   Men   Alcohol  
    "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.
  • He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

    Pride   Honor   Wealth  
  • Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

    May   Conceit   Downfall  
  • How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

    Different   Done   Way  
  • The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. "The truth" outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.

    People   Soul   Atheism  
    Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.311, Cambridge University Press
  • Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

    Jeremy Gutsche (2009). “Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change”, Gotham
  • I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

    Silly   Thinking   Youth  
    "‘Ready Player One’: An Interview with Author Ernest Cline". Interview with Rebecca Serle, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.
  • Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

    Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”
  • Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there is no room for interpretation; you either take all of it or none. There is no selective belief

  • My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

  • All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.

    Successful   Two   Errors  
    "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.
  • What I've learned is not to take anybody's advice. If you rely solely on your fans, it sets you up for the downfall on the industry side and if you rely on what your label is saying, it will disconnect you from your fans.

    Advice   Fans   Labels  
  • National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

    Speech in Plumstead, London, November 30, 1878.
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