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• From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fun, People, Theatre

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• We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Practice, Cities

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• No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Attention

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• I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

  Conrad Black

  Citizens

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• Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

  Katharine Brush

  Reality

  Katharine Brush (1940). “This is on Me”, New York : Farrar & Rinehart

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• Dad's tiny - his passport picture is a full-length shot. He looks like he just hopped off a key ring. Mum is a different matter, she's a bit of a handful to say the least. I love her more than anyone on this Earth. But she's a monster.

  Ricky Hatton

  Dad, Keys, Monsters

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• The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Reading, Class, Poetry

  Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith”

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• People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now,
  George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Photography, Believe, People

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• My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

  Joan Chen

  Fairy Tale, Moments, Tales

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

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• I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.

  Eve Hewson

  Names, Memphis, Firsts

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• I always have my passport on me, as well as two currencies.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Two, Currency, Wells

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

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• If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one.

  Klaus Barbie

  Thinking, Hands, Barbie

  "Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons". Book by by Tom Bower, p. 23, 1984.

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• Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Real, Heaven, Atheism

  "Atheism: Questions and Answers". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

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• The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Elements, Born Again, Traveler

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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• Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.

  A. A. Gill

  Enemy, Looks, Television

  "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

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• Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Struggle, Mean

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Cat, Oscars, Ginger

  "Front Roe: Revenge's Ashley Madekwe Talks Fashion Tips, Hair Extensions, and Cat Passports". Interview with Louise Roe, www.glamour.com. April 6, 2012.

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• But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Order, People, Crooks

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

  Robin Morgan

  Believe, Gay, Bisexual

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.129, Open Road Media

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• Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

  Alfred Billings Street

  Hope, Lasting Happiness, Giving

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• The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

  Theodore Parker

  Satisfaction, Life Is, Earnestness

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• What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Money, Giving, World

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.80

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• When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Feel Good, Anything Can Happen, Feels

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• The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Country, Acting, Actors

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• For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

  David Lee Roth

  Heart, Years, Broken

  "Diamond Dave hits the airwaves". Jay Lustig, The Star-Ledger, January 1, 2006.

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