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• In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Government, Class

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• It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Process, Unfinished

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Allies, Interest

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• Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave the labor force; and He has cut illegal immigration by casting the United States into a permanent job shortage. Some achievements!

  Dick Morris

  Jobs, Giving Up, Cutting

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• The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

  James Cook

  Character, Poverty, Bad Character

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• I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Loss, Games

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• I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

  Ariel Pink

  Song, States, Revising

  "The Pink Album". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 18, 2014.

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• I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Children, Museums

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• Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Home, Seeing

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• There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Self, Different

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.13, Penguin

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• What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mean, Reality, Doe

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• Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.

  Joseph Sobran

  Ideas, Hot, Enthusiasm

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• When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

  Linda Chavez

  United States, Citizens, Welfare

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• People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Jobs, Numbers, People

  "Column 856". Daily Hansard - Debate, publications.parliament.uk. March 19, 2013.

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• We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results.

  Charlie Munger

  Loss, Years, Nuts

  Charlie Munger's comments on risk at the 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 28, 2001.

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• The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Vedas, Truth Revealed

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2168, Manonmani Publishers

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• One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Real, Thinking

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• Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Mean, Loss, Weight

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• Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Fantasy

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war.

  Frederick Forsyth

  War, Russia, Rights

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• If all bank loans were paid, there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. We are absolutely without a permanent money system.

  Robert W. Hemphill

  Dollars, Banking, Coins

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• Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Different, Mars

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Poverty, Misery

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• Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  World, Use, Illusion

  "Mahmoud Darwish" by Peter Clark, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2008.

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• Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession.

  Sebastien Foucan

  Believe, Planets, Possession

  Sébastien Foucan (2009). “Freerunning: The Urban Landscape is Your Playground”

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