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"There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things." »Robert Lynd
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"The excellent becomes the permanent." »Jane Adams
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"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." »Oscar Wilde
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"Success is never permanent, and failure is never final." »Mike Ditka
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"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." »Mike Ditka
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"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." »Charlie Chaplin
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"Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent." »Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear
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"The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent." »Yvonne De Gaulle
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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." »Samuel Johnson
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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant
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"It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant
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"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." »Miriam Beard
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." »Miriam Beard
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"You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." »Laurence J. Peter
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing." »Aristotle
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"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington
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"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary." »Kathleen Norris
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"The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy
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"If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself." »Marcel Proust
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"Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding." »Dean Gooderham Acheson
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"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety." »H. L. Mencken
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." »Alexander Tyler
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"Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies." »Romare Beardon
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"I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." »Jack London
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"The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation." »Pope John Paul II
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