"The most durable monument of human labor is……" — Alexis de Tocqueville

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• Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. — Max Baucus
• No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when… — Annie Besant
• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler
• It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion… — Alexander Hamilton
• I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that… — George Mikes
• People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. — Bertolt Brecht
• It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge… — Unknown Author
• Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A… — Willy Brandt
• The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with… — Raymond Chandler
• I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds… — Benjamin Rush
• The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is… — Martin Luther

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