Perpetuating Quotes
50 Perpetuating quotes by 47 unique authors
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Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
— Bill Mollison
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...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the…
— Henri Nouwen
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Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote for; and they’re…
— James Morcan
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We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal…
— Benjamin Rush
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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends…
— Edmund Burke
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
— George Bernard Shaw
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This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest…
— Wilfred Owen
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
— Harry S. Truman
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When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart…
— Evgeny Morozov
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i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the…
— Craig Clevenger
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But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth…
— Samuel R. Delany
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Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating…
— Frank Herbert
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Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life,…
— Rick Warren
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Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to…
— John Ortberg
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Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking…
— Charlie Brooker
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Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
— Paul Johnson
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
— Jackson Katz
Who Wrote These Perpetuating Quotes
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