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• Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Hype, Greed

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.41, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

  Isaac Watts

  Forgiveness, Wise, Mean

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic”, p.331

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• Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

  John Calvin

  Giving, Heaven, Remembrance

  Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

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• Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

  Theodore Roethke

  Astonishment

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.175, Copper Canyon Press

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• What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

  Theodore Roethke

  Feelings, Done, Dear God

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.206, Copper Canyon Press

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• American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Ideas, People, Democracy

  Muriel Rukeyser (2004). “Selected Poems”

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• Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

  James Meredith

  Mean, Rights, Class

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• Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

  Asger Jorn

  Lying, Flux, States

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.

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• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  Walter Bagehot

  Air, Civilization, Luxury

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Night, Another Day, Aviation

  "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cycling, Hands, Ties

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• We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Giants, Walks, Raised

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• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Attitude, Men

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• I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Law, Unions

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.40, Penguin

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• I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

  Edward Zwick

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

  "Leonardo DiCaprio & Ed Zwick for “Blood Diamond”". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. December 7, 2006.

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• Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation is suited to the emergencies of his policy or passion; and all contradiction is removed by the saving maxim that any text of Scripture is abrogated or modified by any subsequent passage.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Perfect, Saving

  Edward Gibbon (1830). “The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. Printed From The Edition In Twelve Volumes. With An Introductory Memoir Of The Author, By William Youngman”, p.913

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• Short-term performance envy causes many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch your competitors not out of jealousy but out of respect and focus your efforts not on replicating others' portfolios but on looking for opportunities where they are not. The only way for investors to significantly outperform is to periodically stand far apart from the crowd, something few are willing, or able, to do.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Envy, Focus

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• Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

  John Milton

  Truth, Science, Water

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.183

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• Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Sex, Husband, Law

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, Guizot (François, M.), William Smith (1871). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.61

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• But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

  Edward Gibbon

  Escaping, Political, Desire

  Edward Gibbon (1869). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.318

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• The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

  Johannes Kepler

  Spring, Order, Fountain

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• Perpetual emotion is the past time of the undisciplined mind.

  Ervin Seale

  Past, Mind, Emotion

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• To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Exercise, Goal, Long

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• Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.

  Anne of Austria

  Mind, Hours, Recreation

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• Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the "delusion of fusion."

  Carl Whitaker

  Pain, Team, Addiction

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