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• All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Needs, Trouble

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Running, Moving, Air

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

  Robert Breault

  Abiding Faith, Immortality, Conditions

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• Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Death, Years, Enemy

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• Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary, and exactly where you are supposed to be (otherwise you would be somewhere else). Be at peace with where you are while taking your next step toward where you want to be.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Next Steps

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• The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

  John McAfee

  Years, Two, Viruses

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• Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Long, People

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• Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Moving, Forever

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• What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Play, Feelings

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4895, Delphi Classics

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• The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Song, Art, Struggle

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Things In Life, Important, Life Happiness

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• The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

  Ben Shahn

  Moving, Journey, Self

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mind, Body, May

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.223

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• The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Running, Player, Risk

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• Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

  Martin Seligman

  Hope, Art, Limits

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

  Rick Warren

  Ideas, Bored, Important

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.27, Zondervan

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• Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

  Thucydides

  Sacrifice, Towers, Firsts

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these are usually only temporary measures. The greatest blessing we offer others may be the belief we have in their struggle for freedom, the courage to support and accompany them as they determine for themselves the strength that will become their refuge and the foundation for their lives. I think it is especially important to believe in someone at a time when they cannot yet believe in themselves. Then your belief will become their lifeline.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Friendship, Believe, Struggle

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• The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.

  Luc Montagnier

  Squares, Years, Two

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• Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Home, Ties, Cds

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• When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Reflection, Opportunity, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.349, Cambridge University Press

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• The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.

  Carlos Slim

  People, World, Care

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• Feeling better is temporary. Transformation is forever.

  Christine Kane

  Feel Better, Forever, Feelings

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• The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.454, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.

  Robert Breault

  Adversity, Thinking, Tvs

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