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Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.

Dallas Willard

Thinking, Mind, Use

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To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Lying, Dwelling, Evil

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On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.

Ron Currie Jr.

Real, Years, Political

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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mother, Cutting, Touching

Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.163, Grove Press

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One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

Frederick Hart

Wall, Tree, Vision

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Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Numbers, People, Cinema

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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

John Cage

School, Musical, Truck

Silence (1961)

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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Years, Golden, Passings

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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti

Clouds, Air, Wind

Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

Barack Obama

Central Park, People, Missing

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I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.

Darynda Jones

Saws, Passings, Involved

Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.402, St. Martin's Press

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Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's labyrinth. Who then am I? A consciousness without origin, Not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.

Rumi

Spiritual, Stars, Self

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Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness. It is not concentration. While listening to me you are listening to the birds singing in the trees too. The wind passing through the trees singing its song - you are open to it too. The aeroplane passing by, or the train - you are open to it too. This is meditation - you are simply open, available, conscious, available, all doors are open.

Rajneesh

Song, Mean, Doors

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When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life

Ara Guler

Passing, Persons, Passings

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...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)

Katherine Paterson

Beautiful, Long, Might

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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Elizabeth Bishop

Forget, Passings, Greater

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I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

Sarah Dessen

Glances, Passings, Seeing

Sarah Dessen (2007). “Just Listen”, p.372, Penguin UK

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Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

John Cage

School, People, What If

John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.55, Wesleyan University Press

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The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they've shaped. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all. The parched earth's bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by: Not one's a god.

Mary Karr

Mother, Hurt, Grief

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The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded at her but didn't reply. Knew it, I thought. Honestly," I said. What?" Come on. You have to admit, it's sort of ridiculous." What is?" Now that I had to define it, I found myself struggling for the right words. "You know," I said, then figured Kristy had really summed it up best. "The sa-woon." The what?

Sarah Dessen

Girl, Struggle, Black

Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.171, Penguin UK

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Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

Flann O'Brien

Running, People, House

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Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Steven Pressfield

Lying, Law, Stranger

Steven Pressfield (2000). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Random House

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It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

Kate Chopin

Broken, Leaving, Promise

Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us.

Ann Voskamp

Fall, Dark, Our World

Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.156, Zondervan

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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Yann Martel

Clouds, Shadow, Passings

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