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• I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope that the fruit of this Congress results in the establishment of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in all parishes and Christian communities throughout the world

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Blessed, Community

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• According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  God, Moving, Wind

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• Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

  Sydney J. Harris

  War, Unique, Men

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• As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.66

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• There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loyalty, Men, Important

  Attributed in W. T. Roche's address at Washington, Kansas, April 9, 1942; "Congressional Record", April 15, 1942, vol. 88, Appendix, (p. A149), 1942.

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• Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

  George S. Patton

  Dream, Military

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• Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.

  Arnaud Desjardins

  Baby, Children, Buddhism

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• Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Real, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.94, Bertrand Russell

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• For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

  Marcel Tabuteau

  Years, Play, Bored

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• One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Sweet, Sea, Perception

  William Least Heat-Moon (1999). “River-Horse: A Voyage Across America”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

  William Osler

  Jobs, Fall, Sacrifice

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• Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pride, Long, Temptation

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• There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Men, Two

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.2

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• Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Writing, Expression, Choices

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• Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Struggle, Fighting, America

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• Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

  William Penn

  School, Government, House

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.126

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• We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Change, Creating, People Changing

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• The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

  Henry Adams

  Army, Sea, President

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• In nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion, and change. However, we discover that nothing simply surges up out of nothing without having antecedents that existed before. Likewise, nothing ever disappears without a trace, in the sense that it gives rise to absolutely nothing existing in later times.

  David Bohm

  Inspirational, Giving, Transformation

  David Bohm (2004). “Causality and Chance in Modern Physics”, p.1, Routledge

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• I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

  Neil Oliver

  Looks, Week, Just Live

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.

  David Bohm

  Nature, Transformation, States

  David Bohm (2004). “Causality and Chance in Modern Physics”, p.1, Routledge

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• I think our great task is to make certain that our young men and women in the military do not get sucked into never- ending, perpetual warfare within the quagmire of Syria and Iraq. And I will do my very best to make sure that that doesn't happen.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

  Bernie Sanders

  Isis, Support, Middle East

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Iron, Heaven

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Party, Eye, Movement

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.57, Bantam Classics

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