Permanent Quotes - Page 31

• The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tattoo, Men, Impossible

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• Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Journey, Contemplative Life, Self

  Bernadette Roberts “Experience of No-Self, The: A Contemplative Journey, Revised Edition”, SUNY Press

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• Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Invisible, Champagne, Intoxication

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• The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.

  Russell Kirk

  Art, Book, Taken

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• Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Men, Self, Realization

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• To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Educational, Names, Humanity

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• There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

  Roger Scruton

  Names, Kitsch, Emotion

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• The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Writing, Casting, Imagine

  "Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski Talks IDA, Returning to Poland, His Visual Style, Shooting in Black in White, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Quality, Important, Improvement

  "Why Israel Needs a Fence". www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2004.

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• Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Joy, Soul

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.

  Winston Churchill

  Use, Poison Gas, Tribes

  Winston Churchill's statement as President of the Air Council in War Office Departmental Minute (the original document is in the collection of Churchill Papers 16/16 at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge), May 12, 1919.

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• Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

  Nick Murray

  Gains, Decline, Temporary

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• There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.

  John Steinbeck

  Texas, Confusion, Prejudice

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• An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Acres, Hemp, Patches

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• Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

  John Brunner

  Addiction, Joy, Causes

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.

  Oscar Romero

  People, Majority, Sin

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• I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

  Richard Lamm

  People, Enemy

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• You must learn to control your money, or to the permanent deprivation control you

  Dave Ramsey

  Deprivation

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• The only thing permanent is change.

  Immanuel Kant

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• There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Alliances, Interest

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• The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.

  Glenn Greenwald

  War, Years, Names

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Decision, Mind, States

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• Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivation, Heart, People

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• The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

  Beth Moore

  Pits, Causes, Lost

  Beth Moore (2015). “Looking Up: Trusting God With Your Every Need”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.

  Michael J. Boskin

  Government, Voting, President

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