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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
2.
There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them.
Steven Carroll
3.
The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
Cherrie Moraga
4.
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
Kenny Loggins
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
Nadine Gordimer
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To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
Lance Henriksen
8.
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
Helene Cixous
9.
It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.
Bob Seger
10.
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.
Joyce Johnson
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Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
Hank Nuwer
12.
We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.
Janet Reno
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In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
Alberto Manguel
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Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.
Hillary Clinton
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Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
Cesare Lombroso
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You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.
Veronica Roth
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There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.
Charles de Saint-Evremond
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What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.
Justin Cronin
20.
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
Henry Vaughan
22.
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless
Haruki Murakami
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The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
Mahatma Gandhi
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death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
Isak Dinesen
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The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
Thomas Fuller
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One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.
Christine Sneed
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I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.
Agyness Deyn
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
Robert Genn
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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
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Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.
Craig Brewer
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This life is but the passage of a day,
This life is but a pang and all is over;
But in the life to come which fades not away
Every love shall abide and every lover.
Christina Rossetti
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Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
Gemma Ward
35.
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.
Billy Graham
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Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it
Francis Chan
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It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
Juvenal
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somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do
Randy Pausch
40.
Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!
Christian Louboutin
41.
[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
Barbara Mikulski
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That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
Jonathan Swift