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• I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mistake, Vacation, Years

  "The Guardian" interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Space, Self, Land

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• I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  India, Reform, Membership

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• To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ontology, Logic, Certainty

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.4, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, People, Greek

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• I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, Growth, Sound

  "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

  Sean Parker

  Moving, Home, Two

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• Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

  Sly Stone

  Long, Sitting

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• In a democracy, power is not permanent.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Democracy

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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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• Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.

  Criss Jami

  Atheist, Hands, Moral Behavior

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.74, Criss Jami

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• Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Rights, Constitution

  "Women’s Equality Yet to Be Fully Realized" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

  J. B. Jackson

  Giving, Identity, Social

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• A permanent path
  That, once illuminated,
  Goes ever onward - a way home.

  Scott Hastie

  Home, Way, Path

  Scott Hastie, “However Beautiful”

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• To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mean, World, Degrees

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• Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.

  Charlie Munger

  Loss, Nuts, Risk

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• You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

  Jim Balsillie

  Real, Important, Attention

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• Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

  A. O. Scott

  Essentials, Timbuktu, Feels

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• Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.

  Elie Abel

  Country, Giving, President

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• The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

  Herbert Gold

  Dream, Challenges, Humanity

  Herbert Gold (1971). “The Magic Will: Stories & Essays”, p.50, Transaction Publishers

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• Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

  Joey Santiago

  Stupid, Writing, Trying

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• I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs.

  John A. Keel

  Psychics, Vision, May

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• Tomorrow is our permanent address.

  e. e. cummings

  Future, Addresses, Tomorrow

  1 x 1 no. 39, l. 12 (1944)

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• What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.

  Donna Farhi

  Success, Buddhist, Philosophy

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Enemy, Allies

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