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• Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, War, Holiday

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• There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.

  Ouida

  Light, Sunrise, Brain

  Ouida (1874). “Folle-Farine”, p.196

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• The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Truth, Men, Peculiar

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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• I pissed away over ten million dollars
  On dope and crack
  I passed away deader than a door knob
  But now I'm back

  Al Jourgensen

  Dope, Doors, Cracks

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• Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are.  Not what my influences are, but who.. As if the gutter, misunderstandings, memories, sex, dreams, and books matter less than forebears do.  After all, in terms of influences, it is as much the guy who mugged me on Tenth Street, or my beloved dog who passed away much too early, as it was Giotto or Diane Arbus.

  Robert Gober

  Dream, Dog, Sex

  Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Robert Gober, Cynthia Burlingham, Dave Hickey, Tullis Johnson (2009). “Heat waves in a swamp: the paintings of Charles Burchfield”, Prestel Pub

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• I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.

  Amy Schumer

  Rivers, Mets, Felt

  "Amy Schumer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 14, 2015.

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• When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Alive, Sun, Stills

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

  Christopher Walken

  Couple, Good Life, Father

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.

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• The man who invented Doritos has passed away at the age of 97. He asked to be buried with the creator of Fritos and Cheetos in a variety pack.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Age, Doritos

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• The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Dying, Age

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• Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Philosophical, Imagination, Age

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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• Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

  Ronald Reagan

  Crafts, Diplomats, Foxes

  Address to United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 1987.

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• I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Dad, Father

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• We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Brother, Nice, Fall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  Kate Burton

  Father, People, World

  "Kate Burton: Books, theater run in family" by Chad Jones, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.

  Carson Daly

  New York, Father, Real

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• My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

  Gail Devers

  Grandma, Want, Able

  "U.S. Olympic trials: Q&A with legacy athlete Gail Devers". Interview with Paul Buker, www.oregonlive.com. June 23, 2012.

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• I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.

  Antonio Machado

  Jesus, Heaven, Passing Away

  Antonio Machado, Robert Bly (1983). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.109, Wesleyan University Press

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• Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Simple, Giving, Causes

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.3716, e-artnow

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• Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
  For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
  Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
  Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
  And Usna's children died.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

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• I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I'm at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he's gone.

  Russell Wilson

  Dad, June, Next Day

  "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Mouths, Dirt

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• Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

  Aristotle

  Education, Hate, Years

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.259, Aristotle

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• ...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Tired, Curiosity, Immature

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• My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Mother, Couple, Father

  "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 31, 2015.

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