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• I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.

  Niccolo Paganini

  Guitar, Harmony, Companion

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• There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, World, Inconstancy

  'A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind' (1709)

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• And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?

  Gavin de Becker

  Differences, Media, Years

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.

  Edmund Landau

  Science, Engineering, Letters

  Edmund Landau (1951). “Differential and integral calculus”

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• I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

  Jim C. Walton

  Believe, Issues, Giving

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• One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

  Henri Poincare

  Desire, Development, Remember

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• In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Thinking, Innovation, Example

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• Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

  Benjamin Franklin

  World, Miscellaneous

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.397

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• Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Choices, Tasks

  Evelyn Underhill (1940). “Abba: Meditations Based on the Lord's Prayer”

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• America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Land, America, Improvement

  Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.547

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• What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Reflection, Issues

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, People

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Body, Human Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.

  Kay Arthur

  God, Christian, Pain

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• Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Children, Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to fall back since man never remains in the same condition.

  Vincent de Paul

  Perseverance, Fall, Men

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Soul, Mind, Unity

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• It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.

  Frank Smythe

  Travel, Nature, Yellow

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• People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

  Richard Adams

  People, Bird, Records

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.112, Oneworld Publications

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• The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

  B. F. Skinner

  Jesus, Men, Opposites

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• May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, May, Emotion

  "Fictional character: Mr. Spock". "Star Trek" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to practice, and I wanted them to get a certain amount of pleasure out of basketball. It's a game. It should be fun. So I always tried to counterbalance any criticism in practice with a bit of praise. I wanted my players to feel that the worst punishment I could give them was to deny them the privilege of practicing. If they did not want to practice, I did not want them there.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Fun, Boys

  "They Call Me Coach".

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• My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Loyal, Companion

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• Common sense needs constant reappraisal.

  Albert Einstein

  Common Sense, Needs, Common

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• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Writing, Thinking, Style

  Interview With David Attwell, www.dn.se. August 12, 2008.

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