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• We were just floored by the kindness of the people here. The minister of the Unitarian Church in Honolulu invited my family over to his office the day we arrived and told us to make it our headquarters while we looked for a permanent residence. When we couldn't find a place for about a week, he let us live in the church; that's ironic, isn't it? But it points up the vastly different intellectual atmosphere that prevails here in Hawaii.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Kindness, Unitarian Church, Office

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• The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Thinking, Simplicity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In order to create a permanent atmosphere of change, that's where the solidarity economy of change comes in. You don't want to simply invest in what exists already hoping that the next group of entrepreneurs are not as greedy as the last one.

  Chokwe Lumumba

  Order, Entrepreneur, Atmosphere

  Source: bknation.org

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• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  Felix Adler

  Taken, Desire, Unrest

  "Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America". Book by Allan Stanley Horlick, 1994.

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• The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

  Eric Alterman

  Economic Inequality, Political, Politician

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• Pain is never permanent.

  Teresa of Avila

  Single, Spiritual, Pain

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, (p. 333), 2007.

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• That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.

  Sebastian Bach

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

  Drew Barrymore

  Tattoo, Sometimes, Permanent Things

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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.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

  Bob Beauprez

  Cutting, Government, Land

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• Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Congratulations, Intellectual, Inspired

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

  Julian Bond

  Unemployment, Slavery, Periods

  Julian Bond (1972). “A time to speak, a time to act: the movement in politics”

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• I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

  Sandra Bullock

  Awkward, Nails, Lots Of Friends

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• No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

  Albert Camus

  People, Suffering, Crowds

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

  Jimmy Carter

  Winning, Agreement, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

  Margaret Cho

  Body, Damage, Wanted

  "'Drop Dead Diva' Q&A: Brooke Elliott and Margaret Cho on how TV -- and comedy -- affect women's body image". Interview with Mandi Bierly, ew.com. June 6, 2010.

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• The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

  David Crystal

  People, Stories, Well Known

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• We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

  Jim DeMint

  Country, Class, America

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• When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum, in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today and it's called the Internet.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mother, Growing Up, School

  "Legal System Treats Celebs Differently, Dershowitz Says". Interview with Chris Cuomo, sports.yahoo.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Country, Fate, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Nerves, World

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• Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

  T. S. Eliot

  Moments, Difficulty

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Careers, May

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