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Passings Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
- The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
- In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of…
- Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he…
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- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. — Francis Bacon
- I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between… — Russell Baker
- I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after… — Annie Besant
- The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb… — Annie Besant
- Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it… — David Bohm
- There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this… — James Bovard
- I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl. — Christina Aguilera
- Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. — Omar N. Bradley
- Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. — Julie Burchill