Perpetuating Quotes

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by… — Benjamin Rush
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a… — Simone de Beauvoir
The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same. — George Orwell
Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and what it has… — George H. Smith
Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying… — Thandie Newton
I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm… — Jamie Lee Curtis
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents… — Margaret Sanger
Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and… — Richard Heinberg
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are… — Mark Twain
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been… — Baron d'Holbach
Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask… — Leigh Steinberg
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of peopleâ€™s private lives.… — Barry Goldwater
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice,… — C L R James
To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need… — Beverly Daniel Tatum
Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a… — Heidi Julavits
Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together. This… — Steve Rubel
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt,… — John Yau
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character. — Walton Goggins
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce

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