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• Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Wise, Attention, Pay

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.142

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• Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Time, Age

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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  Walt Whitman

  Lessons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Funny, Dark

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• To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

  Lance Henriksen

  Beautiful, Wonderful, Rite

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• If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

  Mortimer Adler

  Giving Up, Book, Insight

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

  Balthus

  Order, Emotion, Chaos

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• Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Travel, Memorable, Opportunity

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• We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

  Janet Reno

  Disability, Building, Policy

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• We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Cutting, Long

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• I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

  William Kidd

  Good Friend, Journey, Care

  William Kidd, Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty (1936). “The tryal of Capt. William Kidd for murther & piracy upon six several indictments: as also the tryals of Nicholas Churchill, James Howe, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Abel Owens, Richard Barlicorn, & Darby Mullins, at the Admiralty sessions held at the Old Bailey, London, on the 8th & 9th of May, 1701”

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• Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

  Danny Glover

  Summer, School, Voters

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

  Cesare Lombroso

  Knows

  The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

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• About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.

  Alan Thicke

  Heart, Kids, Funny Things

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• Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

  Francis Parkman

  Two Sides, House, Leaving

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.352, Library of America

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• My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

  Kenny Loggins

  Brave New World, Rite, World Life

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

  Dirk Benedict

  Land, America, Faces

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• Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Reading, Years

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• But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

  Xavier Becerra

  Hippie, Unfinished Work, Years

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• Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

  Sydney Brenner

  Real, Doe, World

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• I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

  Jim Ramstad

  Oil, Finals, Way

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• For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

  William H. Gass

  Country, Sex, Eye

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• Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

  Robert Mueller

  Agency, Nsa, Information

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• Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Infancy Is

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• I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

  Anton Seidl

  Mean, Simple, Horny

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.102, Parrot Press

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