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• The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

  Brian Friel

  Real, Irritation, Trouble

  Brian Friel, Paul Delaney (2000). “Brian Friel in Conversation”, p.227, University of Michigan Press

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• The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, Nwo, People

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• The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Change, Thinking, Acting

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.93, Penguin

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• What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

  Bob Beauprez

  Cutting, Government, Land

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• The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

  David Crystal

  People, Stories, Well Known

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• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Business, Future

  The Left Hand of Darkness ch. 5 (1969)

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• People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

  Mitt Romney

  Self Esteem, Party, Long

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• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

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• Our permanent address is tommorrow.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Addresses

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• It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.

  Arundhati Roy

  Jobs, Memories, Loss

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.16, Penguin Books India

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• Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Men, Law

  "New Outlook, Volume 58". Book edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith, Outlook Publishing Company, Inc. (p. 272), 1898.

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  There is nothing permanent except change.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

  Andy Griffith

  Home, Connections, Television

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

  G. H. Hardy

  Ambition, Leaving, Ambitious

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• What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

  G. H. Hardy

  Character, Science, Men

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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• I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I Am. The awareness of being remains, regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.

  Neville Goddard

  Who I Am, Feelings, Degrees

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Power of Awareness: With linked Table of Contents”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.

  I. M. Pei

  Community, Want, Values

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• Jude, a bondslave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who by God the Father have been loved and are in a state of being the permanent objects of His love, and who for Jesus Christ have been guarded and are in a permanent state of being carefully watched, to those who are called ones.

  Kenneth Wuest

  Jesus, Brother, Father

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• Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Army, Years, Colonialism

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

  George Nakashima

  Fighting, Design, Woodworking

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• No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this
  day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley,
  impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will,
  temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent
  possession of the soil.

  John William Dawson

  Waiting, Unions, Able

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• I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

  William Whipple

  Giving Up, Thinking, Satisfaction

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• Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.

  Bel Mooney

  Grief, Ill Health, Sorrow

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• You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

  Andrew Davidson

  Thinking, Wish, Glad To Be Alive

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.161, Canongate Books

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