#passes

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. ↗

— John Cage

#daily #daily life #highest #involved #life

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. ↗

— Julian Castro

#american #american dream #cross #dream #each

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#another #generation #passes #simply #society

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#evil #good #labor #passes #pleasure

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#department #each #knowledge #metaphysical #passes

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#cares #ceases #conflict #game #him

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. ↗

— Chris Evans

#each #indignation #just #most #passes

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth. ↗

— Marie de France

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