Permanent Quotes
1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors
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...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought…
— Max Muller
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When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
— Samuel Johnson
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value…
— Wendell Berry
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things,…
— J D Salinger
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With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary…
— Frederick Soddy
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Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then…
— Salvador de Madariaga
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Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life
— Dennis Prager
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Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
— Brian Tracy
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Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.
— George W. Bush
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The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with…
— Wilhelm Steinitz
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I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a…
— Leo Buscaglia
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All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in…
— Strobe Talbott
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I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the…
— Carl Sagan
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In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the…
— George Washington
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Part of the value of TASK is not to invest into anything permanent; to really celebrate the moment-the fluidity of creative action.
— Oliver Herring
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One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know. . . . Once…
— William S. Burroughs
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We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to…
— Sakyong Mipham
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The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it…
— Martin Luther
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My attitude is tattooed that means it's permanent
— Kanye West
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