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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me And why should I not speak to you – Walt Whitman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. – Hermann Hesse	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. – Margaret Fuller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely. – Chinese Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity. – William Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns. – Bhagavad Gita	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted. – Rena Harmon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. – Earl Nightingale	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home. – Australian Aboriginal Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday's science fiction regarded as unspeakably dreadful has become today's award-winning research – Theodore Roszak	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation. – Sid Taylor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. – Theodore Harold White	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. – Virginia	added by anonymous 14 years ago
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. – Marcus Terentius Varro	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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