Temporary Quotes - Page 14

• Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Coffee, Taken, Party

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1455, Delphi Classics

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• Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Weed, White, Fields

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.34, New York Review of Books

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• Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company.

  Jonah Hill

  Kind, Building, Ceo

  "‘War Dogs': Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Todd Phillips on the Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2016.

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• For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability, almost the certainty, of ad hoc, temporary, insecure and part-time work and unpaid 'trainee' pseudo-jobs deceitfully rebranded as 'practices' - all considerably below the skills they have acquired and eons below the level of their expectations.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Crush, Jobs, Memories

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The visa thing can be an issue, if you're going to work for someone here make sure they will help you with this. However, so that you know what you need make sure you research the visa issue on your own. A 90 day visa is not a problem and I saw six month visas being offered through the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, but nothing about one year visas or temporary residence cards. Of course you are probably aware that you need some sort of visa in advance just to gain entry into Vietnam.

  Doug Rice

  Years, Issues, Needs

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Honesty, Advantage, Permanent

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• What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, White, Perspective

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• If somebody prefers to work by means of sanctions, he is welcome to do so. But sanctions are a temporary measure. Firstly, they contradict the international law. Secondly, tell me where this policy of sanctions proved to be effective. The answer is nowhere.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Law, Answers

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• If people around the world believe they can just come on a temporary visa and never, ever leave, the Obama-Clinton policy, that's what it is, then we have a completely open border, and we no longer have a country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Believe, People

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Last year [2015] alone nearly half a million individuals overstayed their temporary visas. Removing these overstays will be a top priority of my administration.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Priorities, Half

  Source: time.com

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• We will have a proper tracking system. Approximately half of new illegal immigrants came on temporary visas and then never, ever left. Why should the? Nobody's telling them to leave. Stay as long as you want, we'll take care of you.

  Donald Trump

  Long, Half, Care

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

  Charles Bowden

  Long, Water, Environmental

  Charles Bowden (1977). “Killing the Hidden Waters”, p.7, University of Texas Press

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• In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Law, Names

  "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert, "The Stolen Journals", 1981.

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• I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Drug, Sensual

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

  Dan Simmons

  Children, Pain, War

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.116, Spectra

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• It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Gold, Variation

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.46

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• They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Lying, Difficult, Hoping For The Best

  "Nation-Building Lite" by Michael Ignatieff, www.nytimes.com. July 28, 2002.

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• In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

  Lennart Meri

  Past, Hunters, Film

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• Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, People, Political

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.

  Alan Lightman

  Dream, Real, Order

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.5, Vintage

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• Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Dream, Regret, Mourning

  Barbara De Angelis (2007). “How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns”, p.215, Macmillan

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• To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and evacuation, must, of course, be considered as nothing more than temporary expedients, they do help to provide practical experience which should be of great importance in view of the coming Endlösung (Final Solution) of the Jewish question.

  Reinhard Heydrich

  Views, Emigration, Approval

  Speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin, on January 20, 1942. "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken: The "Final Solution". Book by A. J. Mayer, p. 304, 1990.

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• This is not about the aesthetics: there is a rule in a society: "Whoever you deal with, makes you become them", therefore watching the efforts of para-athletes can bring the temporary mobility disorder. If we want humanity to develop, the television should show us people who are healthy, beautiful, strong, honest and wise - not perverts, murderers, weaklings, losers, idiots or invalids.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

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• The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Curiosity, Age

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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