Perpetual Motion Quotes - Page 2

• Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Government, Democracy

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Party, Sleep, Faults

  "Do It for the Kids". Chat live with readers, www.slate.com. December 21, 2015.

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• But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

  Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

  Hard Work, Thinking, Reason

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