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• Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

  Don Young

  Ice, Scotland, Agriculture

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• Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

  Roger Wicker

  Taken, Home, America

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• Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

  George H. Mead

  Past, Events, Process

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• Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

  Kim Novak

  Moving, Essence, Tree

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• Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

  Rumi

  Discovery, Doors, Boundaries

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• We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

  Lauren Hutton

  Birthday, Growing Up, Wrinkles

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

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• Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

  Arthur Ashe

  Trust, Sports, Reality

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• I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Journey, Wish

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

  Esther Williams

  Wisdom, Teaching, Athlete

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• If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

  Pope Francis

  Father, Giving, Justice

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• Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

  Elizabeth I

  Grief, Weakness, Ends

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• Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heartbroken, Guy, Old Friends

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• My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

  Edward Gibbon

  Obscurity, Language, Obscenity

  Edward Gibbon (1900). “The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with Various Observations and Excursions”

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• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  Ed Koch

  Politics, Firsts, Bedtime

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• You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

  Vivien Leigh

  Girl, Mother, Voice

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• I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

  Amy Grant

  Years, Found, Passage Of Time

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• I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

  Pete Townshend

  Stories, Rite, Rite Of Passage

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• A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Journey, Space

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• I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

  Orlando Bloom

  Thinking, Trying, Cracks

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• Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

  Richard Dawkins

  Business, Believe, Power

  "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.

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• No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Secret, Depth, World

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• Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

  Larry Craig

  Cutting, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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• In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Years, Wind

  William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.12

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• I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

  John Irving

  Character, Stories, Fans

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• After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Ambition, Knowledge

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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