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• The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Destiny, Men

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• Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

  Richard Florida

  Class, Giving, Maps

  Richard Florida (2009). “Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life”, p.272, Basic Books

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• I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

  Lewis Thomas

  Religious, Thinking, Soul

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• The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be... continued attempts to place lines accurately build the eye-hand coordination necessary for sketching.

  Paul Laseau

  Eye, Hands, Trying

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• A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Architecture, Stability, Questioning

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• Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Essence, Seductive

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• If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.

  Herbert Spencer

  Marriage, Wise, Passion

  Herbert Spencer (1904). “An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer”

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• Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.

  Michael Dirda

  Book, Writing, Self

  "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

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• Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. To speak of 'what is past, or passing or to come'-in the most meticulous language thereby to assure its permanence; to honor those we've loved and learned from and must outlive.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Mean, Past

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• There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Giving, Romance, Faces

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• A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Change, Business, Men

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1909). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that is larger than us, larger than the things we can point to, remember and claim, escorts us from dark into light.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Heart, Dark, Light

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• Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

  Bonaventure

  Change, Giving, Littles

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• The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.

  F.B. Meyer

  Heart, Years, Funeral

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• There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Doubt

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.236, Ravenio Books

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• It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared for it." I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.

  Charles Darwin

  Success, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.440, Broadview Press

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• After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Science, Animal

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• But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Change, Four, Week

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• It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Real, Virtue

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

  Barry Finnerty

  Music, Challenges, Jazz

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• When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.

  Galway Kinnell

  Stars, Thinking, Broken

  Galway Kinnell (1973). “The Book of Nightmares”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

  Evelyn Waugh

  People, Hunger, Young

  EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

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• The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

  Zadie Smith

  Self, Comfort, Belief

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

  Nora Roberts

  Kindness, Path, Worthy

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