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• So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.

  Gunter Grass

  Risk, Complaining, Development

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• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

  Robert Collier

  Mistake, Lying, Adversity

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• Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

  Cyril Connolly

  Marriage, Two, People

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• Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

  Ashley Montagu

  Love, Sleep, Men

  Ashley Montagu (1992). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).

  Gunter Schabowski

  Change, Country, Borders

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• I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things. I can scarcely refrain from suspecting some ancient, diffused magnetism; a call from the center of things; a dim, almost lost memory, or perhaps a presentiment, pointless in so puny a being, of a universal syntax.

  Roger Caillois

  Memories, Needs, Syntax

  Roger Caillois (1985). “The writing of stones”, Univ of Virginia Pr

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• Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

  Susan Estrich

  Moving, Time To Move On, Action

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• Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Identity, Behavior

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.71, Penguin

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• The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to
  derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes
  into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,
  and brings in perennial interest.

  Frederick Soddy

  Passion, Order, Age

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• It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.

  Ben Robertson

  Home, People, Comfort

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• Alternative healing does not always offer a quick fix of a symptom, but it does offer a permanent healing that resonates beyond physical well-being. It creates a total uplift in attitude, enhanced spiritual awareness, and so much more that will change the way you appreciate life everyday. Embracing alternative healing by focusing on the cause and trusting the process as it unfolds will be a journey that can be trying or difficult at times, but it will always be extremely rewarding.

  Alice McCall

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Riley B is a permanent pain in my a** in the game of life

  Maeve Quinlan

  Pain, Games

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• In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all images, the soul is fed in contemplation by the essences of the highest realm, knowing the permanent noumena of things. Then, satiated with this knowing, it descends again to the earthly realm. And precisely at the boundary between the two worlds, the soul’s spiritual knowledge assumes the shapes of symbolic imagery: and it is these images that make permanent the work of art. Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life.

  Pavel Florensky

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Temporary Defeat, Remember, Failing

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.91, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.

  Don Ed Hardy

  Tattoo, Issues, People

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• She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion, an end, a permanent fixing of all that was troubled and shifting and deadly. And yet it was absurd to think this. No person could save another. So she drew back from him and released him.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Broken Heart, Men, Thinking

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• Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

  Paul Fussell

  July, Air, Iron

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

  Mooji

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Dream, Believe, United States

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• Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

  Reynolds Price

  Civilization, Cities, Permanent Things

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• An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects

  Orson Pratt

  Happiness, Wise, Powerful

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.11, Latter-day Strength

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• For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Immortal, Humans, Dies

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• A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.

  John Welwood

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

  Muriel Lester

  Friday, Sight, Evil

  Muriel Lester (1947). “It So Happened”

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• I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.

  Robert Goolrick

  Home, Trying, Fiction

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.105, Algonquin Books

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