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• Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.

  Angelina Grimke

  Jesus, Men, Rights

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• Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

  Frederick Sanger

  Art, Students, Improvement

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• There are some who do not learn, and who do not improve as fast as they might, because their eyes and their hearts are not upon God; they do not reflect neither do they have that knowledge which they might have; they miss a good deal which they might receive. We have got to obtain knowledge before we obtain permanent happiness; we have got to be wide awake in the things of God.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Heart, Eye, Missing

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  Military, Iraq, Renounce

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• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

  Andrew Solomon

  Parenthood, Stranger, Catapults

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Victory, Doe, Shows

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• A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clouds, Sky, People

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• A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.

  C. D. Darlington

  Maturity, Bird, Pigeons

  Genetics and Man Ch. 16

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• Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

  Adam Gopnik

  Magic, Mind, Mazes

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

  Matt Blunt

  Children, Home, Responsibility

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• Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

  Nido R Qubein

  Strong, Commitment, Best Effort

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• The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish a self-aggravating and permanent institutionalized phenomenon.

  Laurance Labadie

  Government, Self, Health Education

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Meditation, His Love, Way

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1980). “Self-realization”

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• The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Evil, Mind

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami

  Mary Landrieu

  Children, Believe, Would Be

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• When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

  Dogen

  Confused, Moving, Eye

  "Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries".

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• Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Childhood, Adults

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Mean, Essentials, Indifferent

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• Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior.

  Charles Duhigg

  Believe, Skills, People

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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• The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Fear, Giving Up

  Chris Hedges (2011). “Death of the Liberal Class”, p.21, Nation Books

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• The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.

  Lev Grossman

  Country, Book, House

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• Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Ties, Normal, Dollars

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• I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

  Wilfred Owen

  Jesus, Gun, Tears

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Skills, Wife

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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