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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Persistence, Rocks

  "The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

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• I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

  Nikola Tesla

  Lamps, Electric Current, Brightness

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• Pondering a passage of scripture can be a key to unlock revelation and the guidance and inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Scriptures can calm an agitated soul, giving peace, hope, and a restoration of confidence in one’s ability to overcome the challenges of life. They have potent power to heal emotional challenges when there is faith in the Savior. They can accelerate physical healing.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspiration, Healing, Emotional

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• Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.

  Richard Griffiths

  People, Actors, Faces

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• What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Fall, Writing

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• One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 05, 2015

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• I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.

  J. C. Ryle

  Strong, Book, Order

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• The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, 'I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.'

  Thomas Powers

  Sorry, Play, Trying

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• The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible.

  Lewis Hyde

  Faces, Looks, Mystery

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• At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.

  Hillary Clinton

  Encouragement, Reading, Thinking

  "Fox News is ready for Hillary" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2014.

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• I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Dog, Ears, Pages

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• I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does not pass over me, over us. It doesn't erase anything, doesn't undo it. I'm not a live. I died in Auschwitz but no one knows it.

  Charlotte Delbo

  Memories, Believe, Differences

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• It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.

  Frank Yerby

  Writing, Cutting, Knives

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• Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?

  Kate Morton

  Grandmother, Past, Voice

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

  Michael Shermer

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Struggle

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• In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

  George Orwell

  Art, Writing, Math

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on the passage from religion toward faith, from self-medication to sobriety, from daughterhood to motherhood, from being the disembodied 'good girl' to embracing her own bad lesbian self. In crisp chapters, Seaton leads us, step-by-step, over this harrowing and blissful road, so distinct from yet so much like our own.

  Terry Wolverton

  Girl, Sex, Motherhood

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• The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fear, Book, Mean

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• Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us

  A.J. Cronin

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.

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• I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Thinking, Library, Matter

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.340, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Memories, Past

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.84, eKitap Projesi

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• One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Names, Mind, Age

  P. G. Wodehouse (2004). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.169, 1st World Publishing

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• But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Would Be, Stories, Deny

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• Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Views, Two

  Dwight L. Moody (1958). “Talks to Christians”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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• No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

  David Jeremiah

  Inspirational, Death, Christian

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