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• Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Stones, Outcomes

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

  Criss Jami

  Writing, Creativity, Average

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.

  Jim Talent

  Government, Salary, Done

  "Starting Point With Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

  Sydney Thompson Dobell

  Envy, Emulation, Sin

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• What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Inspirational, Attitude, Order

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• Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Happiness, Gratitude, Thinking

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• Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

  Herman Melville

  Tyrants, Insult, Slave

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.276, Northwestern University Press

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• Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

  Jim Nussle

  Ifs And, Growing, Economy

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• Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation occurs only when we honor ourselves as the source of wisdom and compassion.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Compassion, Self

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• Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

  Ernst Mayr

  Understanding, Definitions, Difficult

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.45, Harvard University Press

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• I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

  Wendell Willkie

  Believe, Loss, Gains

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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• Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Lasts, Program

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• The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.

  Herman Bavinck

  Christian, Lying, Night

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• For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• I believe it’s important to stay young at heart, to have faith in what might seem impossible and to have goals beyond your current abilities or temporary means.

  Hayley Williams

  Believe, Mean, Heart

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• Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'

  Erasmus Darwin

  Pain, Together, Vehemence

  Erasmus Darwin (1818). “Zoonomia”, p.330

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• A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Political, Drug, Moral

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Men, Temporary Defeat

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• Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

  Walt Disney

  Engineering, Done, Economic

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• The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.

  Ann Landers

  Real, People, Giving

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• Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

  Walt Disney

  Freedom, Believe, Men

  Walt Disney's radio address at the "Our American Culture" broadcast during an intermission of the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 1941.

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• The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Fashion, Attention, Way

  Theodore Zeldin (1993). “A History of French Passions 1848-1945: Intellect, Taste, and Anxiety”, p.441, Oxford University Press

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• Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

  James Madison

  Loss, Evil, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Stars, Rocks, Dying

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