Passes Quotes

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With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy. — Sun Tzu
We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6)… — Sun Tzu
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom… — Antonio Gramsci
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to… — Guy Finley
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. — David P. Gardner
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may… — Henry David Thoreau
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it… — William James
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. — Unknown Author
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. — John Cage
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or… — Oscar Wilde
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities… — Agnes Repplier
They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes. — Pete Maravich
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense. — Moliere
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius. — Euripides
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind… — Rajneesh
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. — Honore de Balzac
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. — Marcus Aurelius

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