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1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already… — Criss Jami
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral… — Criss Jami
Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution. — Carolyn Maloney
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests,… — Paul Davies
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. — Mark Steyn
I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only… — Michael Nesmith
The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no… — D. H. Lawrence
Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their… — P.J. O'Rourke
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing… — Isaac Asimov
I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count… — Bob Woodward
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both… — Alfred North Whitehead
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. — Ernst Mach
To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration. — Robert Owen
While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere… — John L. Lewis
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to… — Algernon Sidney
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that… — Zygmunt Bauman
The office of presbyters is a permanent one. — Charles Hodge
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of… — Mary Douglas
India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with… — Pratibha Patil
I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move. — Jeff Bingaman
I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent. — Steve Burns
Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived… — Richard Selzer

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