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• I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in the history of Earth. And now, you're in your Vegas years. You've squeezed yourself into a white jumpsuit, you're wheezing your way through 'Love Me Tender' and you might be about to pass away bloated on the toilet. But you're still the King.

  John Oliver

  Beautiful, Kings, Thinking

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• The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating

  Anaxagoras

  Thinking, Greek, Together

  Anaxagoras, Patricia Curd (2007). “Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays”, p.72, University of Toronto Press

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• Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.

  George MacDonald

  Morning, Peace, Nature

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• Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Opportunity, Life And Death, World

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.273, Canongate Books

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• The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

  Alexander Pope

  Vanity, Rivers, Life Is Like

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.123

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• Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Sadness, Loss, Gains

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• One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.

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  Ram Dass

  Fall, Watches, Rising

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• The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ignorance, Love Is, Heaven

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.107, New World Library

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• Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, New Life, Guidance

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• The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Benefits, Social

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• The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

  William Henry Harrison

  Military, Tyrants, Age

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.

  Antonio Machado

  Jesus, Heaven, Purpose

  Antonio Machado, Robert Bly (1983). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.109, Wesleyan University Press

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• It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

  Boethius

  Essence, Tragedy, Depth

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• For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

  William Blake

  Truth, Hair, Dust

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.686, Pearson Education

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• The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

  William Butler Yeats

  Hurt, Pain, Kindness

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

  Saadi

  Joy, Sorrow, Deformity

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• No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

  Saadi

  Dream, Kings, Boys

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• This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Endurance, Consolation, All Things

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1990). “The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni”, p.119, Penguin

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  To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Mean, Light

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Speech, Politics

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• In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.

  Brigham Young

  Kings, Years, Church

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• All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

  A. B. Simpson

  Prayer, Earth, Praying

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• Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!

  George Eliot

  Fate, Today, Remember

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• It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good of society, and not pass away their time in fruitless searches, which tend rather to the ostentation of knowledge than the service of life.

  Joseph Addison

  Philosophy, Entertainment, Schemes

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.90

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• I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

  Uzo Aduba

  Father, Home, America

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