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• In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

  Augustus William Hare

  Brother, Philosophy, Science

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• Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We know that because we have been through all this before. The "surge" of several years ago was supposed to provide space and time for Iraqi political interests to work out their differences. 30,000 additional U.S. troops failed to lead to any working out of those differences, and the outcome is the mess we see today.

  Paul R. Pillar

  Military, Years, Iraq

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• Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

  Vanna Bonta

  Optimism, Interruptions, Ideals

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• Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

  Audre Lorde

  Powerful, Views, Differences

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• Reputation Is Temporary..As Much as The Man Owning Your Reputation Is

  Sujit Lalwani

  Men, Reputation, He Man

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• There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Temporary Defeat, Differences, Defeat

  Napoleon Hill, E. Harold Keown (1989). “Succeed and grow rich through persuasion”, Signet

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• Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Life, Change, Mistake

  "When Do We Become The Final Version of Ourselves?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Rez, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

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• Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

  John Ortberg

  Wise, People, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

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• The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is #‎ eternal .

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Soul, Body, Neglect

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• To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Letting Go, Past, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.53, Publishdrive

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• A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Thinking, Kind

  Wendell Berry (2009). “A Place on Earth”, p.180, Counterpoint

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• He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Way, Classic, Victim

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• It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

  Nelson DeMille

  Scary, Sanity, Moments

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• Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.

  Flann O'Brien

  Eye, Suffering, Looks

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• I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk it, how temporary our friendship had been. We'd been on our breaks, after all, but it wasn't our relationships that were on pause: it was us. Now we were both in motion again, moving ahead. So what if there were questions left unanswered. Life went on. We knew that better than anyone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Car, What If

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.316, Penguin

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• The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, School, Reality

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesn’t feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its onset. It’s only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Real, Differences, And Love

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• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Government, Doe

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

  Sarah Vowell

  Names, Hopeful, Political

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• When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mean, Adjectives

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• To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

  David Guterson

  Life, Summer, Real

  David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.105, A&C Black

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• The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Difficult, Temporary Setbacks, Hard

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

  Joan Didion

  Cutting, Variables, Rooms

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.6, Zola Books

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• I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

  Bradley Whitford

  Horse, Home, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Bradley Whitford". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 22, 2006.

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• Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Party, Moving, Media

  "Facebook hype will fade" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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