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I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying… — Tim Schafer
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to… — Sheldon Whitehouse
Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered… — Tracy Pollan
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally… — Caroline Knapp
Those who have passed away must be in a happier state than those living. How we have been so self-centered as to think primarily in… — Martin Dansky
I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to… — Ambrose Bierce
OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to… — Ambrose Bierce
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power. — Thomas More
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An adultress passed by a dog at a well; and the dog was holding out his tongue from thirst, which was near killing him, and… — Muhammad
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how… — Anthony Brandt
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;… — Bible
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years, months, days, hours, or minutes remain that Carpe Diem 'is not enough.… — Lord Byron
When you are enjoying life time flies by, when you are not it stands still, though in reflection of this stillness, the observant may note… — Jane Wagner
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:… — Bible
We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... — Bible
He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's… — Monty Python
The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked… — J.R.R. Tolkien
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence,… — James Grover Thurber

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