Perpetuity Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will…
— John Flavel
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Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I…
— Dan Castellaneta
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Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
— James Madison
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Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror,…
— Cheryl Clarke
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Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens…
— Tom Peters
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To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that…
— Norman Borlaug
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There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, — that is…
— Robert Owen
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When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it…
— Edgar Winter
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To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally…
— David Korten
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Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime,…
— Roger Caillois
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The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this…
— Jacob Burckhardt
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It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage…
— Stefan Molyneux
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The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in…
— E. O. Wilson
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To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity,…
— Marcus Allen
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It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not…
— Jim Talent
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Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property…
— Thomas Paine
Who Wrote These Perpetuity Quotes
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