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• I feel like I’ve matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

  Kirk Hammett

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• Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

  Christina Rossetti

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• I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates who were passing by on their way to re-provision their boat. They didn’t even acknowledge me – which is unheard of among sailors – and it was like looking into the eyes of a black mamba.

  Wilbur Smith

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• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

  Frank Gifford

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• A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

  Clara Barton

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• Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

  Christopher Marlowe

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• I don’t regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life’s full.

  Francesca Annis

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• We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

  Lewis Thomas

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• I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

  Russell Baker

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

  Pablo Picasso

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• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

  Khalil Gibran

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• All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

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• Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.

  Robert M. Pirsig

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• Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

  Mason Cooley

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• Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

  Theodore H. White

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• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  G. M. Trevelyan

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• Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

  William James

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• Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.

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