Permanent Quotes - Page 16

• Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

  Algernon Sidney

  Passion, Men, Perfect

  Algernon Sidney (1763). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.366

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• In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Modern Life, Liquid, Circumstances

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• The office of presbyters is a permanent one.

  Charles Hodge

  Office

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.46

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• Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

  Mary Douglas

  Commitment, Our Society, Lifetime

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• India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

  Pratibha Patil

  India, Needs, World

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• I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Moving

  "Bingaman lets his work do talking" by Andrew Restuccia, www.politico.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.

  Steve Burns

  Thinking, People, Done

  "Ex-'Blue's Clues' host Steve Burns an indie rocker at heart" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2002.

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• Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived and written. The settings are wonderfully pictorial. There is no doubt in my mind that Cutting for Stone will endure in the permanent literature of our time.

  Richard Selzer

  Brother, Cutting, Medicine

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• Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.

  Geoff Davis

  America, Government, Regulation

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• I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Jobs, Book, Teaching

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• I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

  Vito Fossella

  Cutting, Thinking, Made

  Human Events Interview, humanevents.com. April 4, 2008.

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• Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Character, Creating, Political

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Life, Fashion, Moving

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• Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

  John Arlott

  Food, Wine, Successful

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• We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

  Martin Feldstein

  Pay, Gains, Inflation

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• Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

  Miep Gies

  Losing, Opinion, Failing

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• The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.

  Timothy Geithner

  Hurt, Recovery, Commitment

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mistake, Vacation, Years

  "The Guardian" interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Space, Self, Land

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• I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  India, Reform, Membership

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• To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ontology, Logic, Certainty

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.4, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, People, Greek

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• I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, Growth, Sound

  "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

  Sean Parker

  Moving, Home, Two

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• Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

  Sly Stone

  Long, Sitting

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