
“I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once.”
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once.”
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“The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Variant: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Source: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
“A nation never falls but by suicide.”
The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series