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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie Chaplin

Men, Power, Hate

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey

Age, Freedom, Learned

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato

Liberty, Lies, State

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Wise, Pain

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers

Life, Yourself, Words

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Live, Moments, Surrender

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

Time, Best, Fear

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz

True, Feeling, Write

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce

Age, Passion, Full

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Epictetus

Find, Wish, Wishes

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
Michelle Obama

Love, Courage, Patience

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Heart, America, Whatever

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, Doubt, Lives

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William James

Truth, Long, Nothing

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac

Through, Big, Laws

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
Nancy Pelosi

Find, Away, Fog

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens

Friendship, Wine, Fan

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell

History, Truth, Lies

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine

Cannot, Hear, Angel

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
Epictetus

Knows, Aside, Turns

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Wisdom, Action

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Men, Again

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon

Men, Hurt, Wise

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Zhuangzi

Everything, Away, Point

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes

Doubt, Along, Stick

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Judge, True, Reason

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke

Good, Done, Through

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
Jim Valvano

Business, Someone, Place

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones

School, Children, Made

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Long, Shall

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