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• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.

  Harry S. Truman

  Friendship, Country, History

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Class, Rushing, Aristocracy

  Thomas Carlyle (1839). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.390

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• When my mother passed away I was 20.

  Deborah Norville

  Mother, Mother Passed Away

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• Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Son, Player, Greatness

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• My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.

  Ty Burrell

  Jobs, Father, Thinking

  "Memorable quotes from the Emmys" by The Associated Press, www.today.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Some sad news, President Bush's lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn't even know Tony Blair was sick?

  Jay Leno

  Sick, President, News

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• I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.

  Steve Harvey

  Mom, Mother, Couple

  "Steve Harvey tells moviegoers how to "Think Like a Man"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always acted as an opportunity to create a mood in our stores. And customers started asking, "What song are you playing and can I buy that?" . And we said "No." And that was kind of the catalyst for beginning to look at music. We started out with our own compilations and after the success of that. We had the courage to say, "Let's produce our own record." and the first record was with Ray Charles before he unfortunately passed away.

  Howard Schultz

  Song, Opportunity, Facts

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• You can never say never. I'm not sure if I even want to. I just don't know. Some of it is just not able to be reached, you can't remember some of it and the people that could help you remember have passed away. It might have to remain a remain.

  Joan Jett

  People, Want, Might

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Our World, Hands, Life And Death

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us.I am still not capable - or rather unwilling - to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere.

  Werner Herzog

  Men, Light, Rose

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• Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.

  Jessica Simpson

  Cancer, Grandmother, Survivor

  "Shoes on Sale: Q&A with Jessica Simpson". Interview with Jordan Saniuk, footwearnews.com. October 12, 2009.

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• My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Mother, Dad, Church

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• I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

  Chief Joseph

  Dad, Father, Hands

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• Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

  Christian Louboutin

  Mother, Memories, Years

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• I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you.'

  Kim Kardashian

  Relationship, Dad, Business

  "Kim Kardashian On 'Humiliating' Sex Tape, Her Hairless Body". Allure Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.

  Denis Johnson

  Cancer, Thinking, Long

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.54, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

  Travis Barker

  Mom, Dream, School

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• The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.

  Hugh Miller

  Future, Science, Men

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed”, p.178

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• Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

  Subramanya Bharathi

  Time, Past, Looks

  "The People's Poet" by N. Nandhivarman to "TamilSydney", www.sangam.org. January 7, 2008.

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• Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush

  Abbi Glines

  Mother, Baby, Dad

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• Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Daughter, White, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.587, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Moving, Sleep

  "Fragile Things". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2006.

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• Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Children, Ideas

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• He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn’t stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away. During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Drinking, Pride

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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