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title: "3 Wave Moves Quotes by 2 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Wave Moves quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Wave Moves sayings and thoughts."
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> [We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-are-always-getting-ready-to-live-but-never-living-the-wave-moves/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/618/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_bars_we-are-always-getting-ready-to-live-but_465715.jpg)

> [Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-is-a-wave-the-wave-moves-onward-but-the-water-of-which-it-is/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_community_society-is-a-wave-the-wave-moves-onward_1107632.png)

> [History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-stanley-robinson/history-is-a-wave-that-moves-through-time-slightly-faster-than-we-do/)

[Kim Stanley Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-stanley-robinson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a8/kim-stanley-robinson-2148_faster_history-is-a-wave-that-moves-through-tim_1619989.png)

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