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• Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

  Vernor Vinge

  Greed, Forever, Goes On

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.68, Macmillan

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• The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence.

  Julian Fantino

  Support, Police, Benefits

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• Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can't but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity.... Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity.

  Eric Felten

  Loyalty, Together, Age

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• Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

  Mary Leakey

  Data, Fundamentals, Theory

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• A ruddy drop of manly blood
  The surging sea outweighs;
  The world uncertain comes and goes,
  The lover rooted stays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Blood, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.339, Library of America

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• We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

  Isabel Allende

  Peace, People, Eras

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.58, University of Texas Press

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• Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

  Nora Ephron

  Failure

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• Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Transient

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.

  Mark Schwahn

  Happiness, People, Way

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• Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Sadness, Important, Fleeting

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• Tears may come and go,
  But there's one thing I know.
  All my life you're a friend of mine.
  You can depend on me.
  I'll be fine...
  'Cause you're a friend of mine.

  Clarence Clemons

  Tears, May, Causes

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• Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Events, Vulnerable

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• Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

  Nelson Mandela

  Broken, Leaving, Challenges

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Nature, Garden

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once again she could watch Spring and Summer and Fall and Winter come and go. Once again she was lived in and taken care of. Never again would she be curious about the city... Never again would she want to live there... The stars twinkled above her... A new moon was coming up... It was Spring... And all was quiet and peaceful in the country.

  Virginia Lee Burton

  Summer, Country, Stars

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• In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Stars, Science

  "Les misérables".

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• To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Spiritual, Journey, Watches

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Nicoletta Lanciano (2005). “Hadrian's villa: between heaven and earth : a tour with Marguerite Yourcenar”

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• Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

  George W. Bush

  Running, Office, Principles

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• Money comes and goes, but your inner feelings, your gut feelings, your manhood, your womanhood, whatever, that stays with you. That don't go anywhere. So you either proud of who you are and how you handle situations or you not. If you handle a situation wrong, you, it will haunt you.

  Ice Cube

  Feelings, Proud, Situation

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

  Elvis Presley

  Long, Acting, Actors

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• Although motivation comes and goes, you can always rely on your will.

  Dan Millman

  Motivation, Rely

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.55, New World Library

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• Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Real, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that

  Lee Ann Womack

  Years, Nominations, Wells

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• Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.

  Eleanor Lerman

  Baby, Growing Up, Memories

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• I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.

  Annie Dillard

  Light, Tree, Vision

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.36, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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