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• Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.

  Don Ed Hardy

  Tattoo, Issues, People

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• She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion, an end, a permanent fixing of all that was troubled and shifting and deadly. And yet it was absurd to think this. No person could save another. So she drew back from him and released him.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Broken Heart, Men, Thinking

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• Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

  Paul Fussell

  July, Air, Iron

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

  Mooji

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Dream, Believe, United States

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• Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

  Reynolds Price

  Civilization, Cities, Permanent Things

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• An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects

  Orson Pratt

  Happiness, Wise, Powerful

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.11, Latter-day Strength

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• For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Immortal, Humans, Dies

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• A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.

  John Welwood

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

  Muriel Lester

  Friday, Sight, Evil

  Muriel Lester (1947). “It So Happened”

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• I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.

  Robert Goolrick

  Home, Trying, Fiction

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.105, Algonquin Books

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• The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.

  Laurie Lee

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Laurie Lee (2011). “Cider With Rosie”, p.36, Random House

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• The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Needs, World, Helping

  "Can Jeremy Grantham Profit From Ecological Mayhem?" by Carlo Rotella, www.nytimes.com. August 11, 2011.

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• The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.

  Joel Osteen

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Data, Generations

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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• Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouring itself out and passing away, as dissemination. We live in a postmodern epoch in which there is nothing absolute, nothing permanent and nothing substantial.

  Don Cupitt

  Past, Reality, Years

  Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.69, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known.

  Peter Johnston

  Children, Expectations, Important

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• Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Roots, Unity, Progress

  james freeman clarke (1864). “the hour whic conveth and now is sermons preached in indiana place chapel boston”, p.114

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• I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

  Sarah Steelman

  Training, Buying, Increase

  "2012 Showdown in Missouri". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

  Freda Adler

  Perception, Experience, Movement

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• Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned wars, we're not creating a permanent underclass, we're not trapping them in shitty schools where they graduate unable to read, WE DO CARE ABOUT THE POOR, and that's why we want the State out of their way!!

  Stefan Molyneux

  War, School, Creating

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• Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Patterns, Belief, Behavior

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• If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Views, Unbearable, Unfair

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.

  Michel Foucault

  Possibility, Opening

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• Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

  T. D. Jakes

  Decision, Storm, Matter

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