#passed

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year. ↗

— Laura Miller

#code #commission #created #ethics #even

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#envisioned #every #i #i am #pessimist

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

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Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#became #been #england #even #forging

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#different #discarded #elements #employ #form

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#adversity #another #away #back #been

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#get #hasn #lady #look #motion

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well. ↗

— Joel Osteen

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