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• If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.

  Benjamin L. Corey

  Meaningful, Peace, Biblical

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• Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Solitude, Facts, Kind

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• Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

  Robert Genn

  Museums, Life Is

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• Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.

  Robert Genn

  Music, Joy, Phrases

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• The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Criticism, Would Be, Accomplished

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• The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Writing, India

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• The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.

  George Steiner

  Heart, Musical, Clarity

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, People, Literature

  Letter to M.V. Kiseleva, January 14, 1887.

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• As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.

  Howard Carter

  Lying, Small Objects, Broken

  Howard Carter's Diary, November 25, 1922.

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• I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.

  Mike Huckabee

  Fighting, Men, Support

  "Things I do not understand: religion, politics, & the American people" by Lynne Joseph, www.dailykos.com. January 17, 2008.

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• Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acting, Matter, Actors

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• The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Eye, Soul

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• Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

  Jonathan Swift

  Drama, Men, Play

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• I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, World, Convinced

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.618

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• The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

  William James

  Memories, Fall, Mean

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.643, Courier Corporation

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• Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Simplicity, Style

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1270, Delphi Classics

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• But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.

  Carl Eckart

  Teaching, Writing, Errors

  Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

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• A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

  Carl Eckart

  Choices, Alternatives, Action

  Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

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• One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.

  James Hollis

  Jobs, Powerful, Book

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.41, Inner City Books

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• The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

  James Hollis

  Daddy, Doe, Middle

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• I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Artist, Dating

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• There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called Horned Pigeon. He had been on the run and hadnt eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Running, War, Book

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• In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!

  Aleister Crowley

  Mother, Father, Men

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• Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

  Helene Cixous

  Enough, Manage

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• Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

  Robin Lim

  Baby, Birth, Forgotten

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