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• My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Strength, Sex, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.6

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• I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Thinking, Machines, Astonishment

  "Mysterious World (Strange Skies)". TV Series, November 18, 1980.

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• There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Perfect, Privacy, Concerts

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.87, Vintage

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• The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Angel, Infinite, Glory

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Two, Choices, Humanity

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• Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

  Philip Roth

  Memories, Boys, Childhood

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• Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Hype, Greed

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.41, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

  Edward Zwick

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

  "Leonardo DiCaprio & Ed Zwick for “Blood Diamond”". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. December 7, 2006.

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• No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Generations, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.596, Cambridge University Press

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• As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

  Keith Olbermann

  Good Night, War, Party

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• Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Cute, Chance

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• Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Heart, Soul, Anticipation

  "Song: "Perpetual Anticipation" ("A Little Night Music")". 1990.

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• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wise, Wisdom, Funeral

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Night, Another Day, Aviation

  "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.

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• We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Giants, Walks, Raised

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• Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

  John Calvin

  Giving, Heaven, Remembrance

  Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

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• Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

  Theodore Roethke

  Astonishment

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.175, Copper Canyon Press

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• What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

  Theodore Roethke

  Feelings, Done, Dear God

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.206, Copper Canyon Press

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• Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

  James Meredith

  Mean, Rights, Class

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• Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

  Asger Jorn

  Lying, Flux, States

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.

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• Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cycling, Hands, Ties

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• Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.

  Ken Blanchard

  Helping Others, Helping, Prosperity

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.125, David C Cook

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• Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation is suited to the emergencies of his policy or passion; and all contradiction is removed by the saving maxim that any text of Scripture is abrogated or modified by any subsequent passage.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Perfect, Saving

  Edward Gibbon (1830). “The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. Printed From The Edition In Twelve Volumes. With An Introductory Memoir Of The Author, By William Youngman”, p.913

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• In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Hands, Cooking

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• Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

  Carol Gilligan

  Crisis

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