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• Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of passage. It is a gateway to a new manner of living, and a new road on which to walk that leads to immortality and eternal life. It was never intended as a dead end. It was intended to open a glorious and wonderful way of life to all who would walk in obedience to the commandments of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Baptism, Church

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• Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

  Henry Taube

  Children, Science, Years

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• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Thinking, East

  Journal (1867)

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• The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Mean, Perfection

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• Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Ignorance

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• The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Dream, Exercise, Mind

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• For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

  Daniel Handler

  Notebook, Mean, Long Ago

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• In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Memories, Writing, Lines

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• You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Writing, World

  "Dictionary of Quotations in Communications" by Lilless McPherson Shilling, p. xvi, 1997.

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• Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

  Javier Bardem

  Reality, Essence, Age

  "Fictional character: Florentino Ariza". "Love in the Time of Cholera", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Powerful, Father, Real

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Real, Writing, Would Be

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.

  Walter Mosley

  Time, Hate, Wings

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• If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Decision, Would Be

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• Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the same. Those returning in such ships were invincible, for they had managed it and could reflect ever after on Anne Hathaway's Cottage or the Tower of London with a confidence that did generate at Sydney. There was nothing mythic at Sydney; momentous objects, beings and events all occurred abroad or in the elsewhere of books.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Wisdom, Book, Europe

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• If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.

  Marquis de Sade

  Death, Real, Simple

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• I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Humor, Criticism

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• At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the truth wherever it leads. This might mean reworking his interpretation of Genesis on the subject-much like Christians have had to rework their interpretation of biblical passages referring to the sun rising and setting, the earth not moving, or the earth resting on foundations.

  Paul Copan

  Christian, Moving, Mean

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• For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

  Carson McCullers

  Love, Struggle, Endless Time

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  Emily Dickinson (2009). “Poems: Series I - III, Complete”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.

  Italo Calvino

  Flower, Eye, Winter

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Hatred, Should, I Have Learned

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “What I Believe”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9337, Aeterna Press

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• The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Suicidal, Night

  'Jenseits von Gut und Böse' [Beyond Good and Evil] (1886) ch. 4, no. 157

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• Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Children, Giving

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