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"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing." »Marcel Proust
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"The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does." »Harpo Marx, Harpo Speaks Autobiography - paperback, pg. 400
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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." »Duke Ellington
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior." »Francis Bacon
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"The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate." »Marcus Terentius Varro
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"Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured." »Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.
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"Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely." »Chinese Proverb
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"Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye." »Thomas Jefferson
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them." »Virginia
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"The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..." »Pablo Picasso
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"The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." »Pablo Picasso
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"We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home." »Australian Aboriginal Proverb
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"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation." »Sid Taylor
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"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin." »Hermann Hesse
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"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world." »Russell Baker
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"What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons." »Wilfred Owen
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"Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon." »Archibald Cox
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity." »Cicero
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity." »Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
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"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this." »Albert Einstein
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"The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday's science fiction regarded as unspeakably dreadful has become today's award-winning research" »Theodore Roszak
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"Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears." »Robert W. Sarnoff
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"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears." »Robert W. Sarnoff
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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted." »Rena Harmon
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"Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America." »Theodore Harold White
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