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Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Simon Winchester

Kansas, Earth, States

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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Robert M. Pirsig

Struggle, Simple, Oxygen

Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agile—more responsive to the Holy Spirit—when it exists in these many forms? And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?

Brian D. McLaren

Christian, Appreciate, Honor

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You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Tucker Max

Girl, Emotional, Issues

Tucker Max (2010). “Assholes Finish First”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Carl Safina

Nature, Struggle, Logical

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The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.

Bridget Riley

Character, Way, Accepting

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The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

Roscoe Pound

Respect, Law, Stills

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Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends - arrow, road, man's life on earth. They are shaped round, in the manner of things eternal and stable - sun, world, God.

Jean Giono

Time, Night, Men

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We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.

Simon Winchester

Kansas, Australia, Nebraska

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Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Reading, Backdrop

Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.12, Beacon Press

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Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

Mark Haddon

Artist, Hot, Dinner

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Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

Dieter Zetsche

Full Potential, Action, Structure

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An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply
low rental.

Jane Addams

Dark, Hull House, Rooms

Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.

Elgin Groseclose

Government, People, Office

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My life certainly hasn't been ordinary: different is the word. It hasn't always been stable - except in the important things which are love and security within the family. Whenever there were strains at home, we could always communicate. The rule was that the younger you were, the louder you were allowed to scream. As the eldest, I just talked.

River Phoenix

Home, Important, Ordinary

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On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment.

William J. Clinton

Mistake, Glasses, Long

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Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

Rick Santorum

Healthy, Adultery, Polygamy

"Raw Data: Excerpts of Santorum's AP Interview". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2003.

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For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

Emily Browning

Two Worlds, Would Be, Needs

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The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

Sigmar Gabriel

Ecosystems, Agriculture, Diversity

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There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than
one rooted in pavements.

Aldo Leopold

Doubt, Pavement, Soil

Aldo Leopold, Susan Flader, J. Baird Callicott (1991). “The river of the mother of God and other essays”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.

J. I. Packer

Jesus, Father, Years

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.35, InterVarsity Press

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There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.

Bertrand Russell

Powerful, War, Eugenics

Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

Ehud Olmert

Country, Growing Up, Successful

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I’m somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if I was going to have a roof over my head, all those types of things. And I know the impact it can have on you psychologically and emotionally.

Jewel

Children, Impact, Insecurity

"Jewel Talks Singing Competitions, Silly Rumors For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Inspirational, Women, Government

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1969). “History of Women Suffrage”, Ayer Co Pub

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