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• My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
  the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
  and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
  because I know that I am bored.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Lonely, Being Alone, Two

  In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2

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• We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.

  John Woodward

  Business, Creativity, Data

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• To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Thinking, Sun

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.61, Graphic Arts Books

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• History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

  Norman O. Brown

  History, Stage, Commemoration

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.116, Univ of California Press

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• Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Life, Should, Benediction

  "Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen - Advaita - Tantra". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1960.

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• The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

  Bernard Crick

  Political, Doctrine, Politics

  Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.17, Bernard Crick

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• We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Enemy, Allies, Politics

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• Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tyrants, Choices, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

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• In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

  C. B. van Niel

  Science, Intelligent, Essence

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• Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Inquiry, Exploration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.100, Рипол Классик

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• To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Brain, History Of Life, Intimate

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• If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Self, Political

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.234, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Elements, World, Revolution

  Charles Dudley Warner (1890). “Backlog Studies: Y Charles Dudley Warner”

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• Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Merit

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• Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Soul, Siege

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• Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.

  Paul Driessen

  Mean, Fire, Safety

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• I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.

  Georges Braque

  Believe, Discovery, Serenity

  Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”

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• When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have perpetual adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have perpetual Eucharistic adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Jesus, Blessed

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• You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
  while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,
  collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:
  because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,
  galloping water, incessant sand,
  we make the only permanent tenderness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Famous Love, Sea, Water

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.512, Macmillan

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• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Winter, Water, One Day

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• As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.

  Tammy Bruce

  Liberty, Speech, Way

  Tammy Bruce (2001). “The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds”, Prima Lifestyles

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• It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species; and, therefore, though he will not be less sensible of pain by being told that others are equally tormented, he will at least be freed from the temptation of seeking, by perpetual changes, that ease which is no where to be found, and though his diseases still continue, he escapes the hazard of exasperating it by remedies.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Men, Knowing

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.310

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• Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Respect, Passion

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1856). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.

  Walter Russell

  Happiness, Men, Omnipotence

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• 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Science, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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