#passing

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Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.


Jim Sensenbrenner


#action #against #congress #control #first

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.


Matthew Simpson


#age #another #around #deepest #form

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.


Lewis Thomas


#along #around #back #bees #dancing

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.


Naguib Mahfouz


#big problems #country #facing #passing #problems

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.


Ivan Turgenev


#bird #flies #generally #happy #human

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.


Anais Nin


#ecstasy #i #images #joy #just

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.


Criss Jami


#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

Your perception is riveting, Amal," he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. "It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's external appearances." Now what am I supposed to say to that? "What do you have to say for yourself?" Friggin' mind reader.


Randa Abdel-Fattah


#mind-reader #note-passing #teacher #funny

Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?


Kelly Braffet


#mother-and-daughter #passing-over #death

Time can do all sorts of things. It’s almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children, seeds into flowers and tadpoles into frogs, caterpillars into cocoons, and cocoons into butterflies. And life into death. There’s nothing that time can’t do. Except run backwards. That’s its trouble really, it can only go one way.


Alex Shearer


#time #time-passing #change