Permanent Quotes

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The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless,… — Richard Henry Lee
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded,… — John Dewey
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell
The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of… — Erich Fromm
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in… — Unknown Author
Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore… — Poul Anderson
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he… — Sinclair Lewis
If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything. — Enrique Iglesias
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in… — Mahathir Mohamad
Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet… — Al Gore
The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent. — Unknown Author
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play… — Junior Seau
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical… — Simone Weil
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. — Henry David Thoreau
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If… — Ruhollah Khomeini
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. — Socrates
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent… — Alan D. Eames
There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of a class that… — Tim Soutphommasane
There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal. — Susan Wiggs
A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no… — Unknown Author
The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you… — Jeanne Woodford
Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be… — Peter Leithart

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