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With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that… — Martin Van Buren
Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so… — Malcolm X
An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it… — Vincent Van Gogh
I know you were just trying to help. But I passed the point of help a long time ago. Look, I know about your people… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent… — L. Neil Smith
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to… — Judah Leon Magnes
It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but… — Vincent de Paul
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the… — John Galsworthy
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.'… — Friedrich Nietzsche
They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive… — Don DeLillo
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as… — George Saunders
I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless,… — Anne Rice
Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance.… — Werner Herzog
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… — Antonio Machado
If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them… — Frederic Bastiat
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice… — Aravind Adiga
It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you… — Paulo Coelho

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