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• There are some  -  called 'death fatigue'  -  people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.

  Shane Claiborne

  Pain, Tired, Eye

  Source: medium.com

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• I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Thinking, Years, People

  " Is this a feminist statement?" by Muriel Gray, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2002.

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• Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

  Paul Johnson

  War, Self, Long

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• The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.

  Taylor Swift

  Artist, Perception, Should

  "Exclusive: Taylor Swift on Being Pop's Instantly Platinum Wonder... And Why She's Paddling Against the Streams". Interview with Chris Willman, www.yahoo.com. November 6, 2014.

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• I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

  T.I.

  Mean, Perfect, Darkness

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Letters, Stones

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm totally fine with that.

  DJ Shadow

  Drama, People, Mainstream

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to unionize. We have two choices: to help them improve their lives, or to keep away so that their lives will be worse. Neither choice has any effect on use of fossil fuels. So radical organizers can both help them unionize and improve their lives, and convince them to find a different way to survive and work for ending the use of fossil fuels.

  Noam Chomsky

  Two, Choices, Trying

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.

  Thom Powers

  Self, Cameras, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

  Danny Strong

  Thinking, Issues, Race

  Source: deadline.com

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• I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

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• Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

  Wilfred Owen

  Together, Language, Holding On

  Wilfred Owen, Douglas Kerr (1994). “The Poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Self, Needs

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.29, Regnery Publishing

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• I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Choices, Vietnam

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Self

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Civilization, Numbers

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.338, Inkling Books

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• When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

  Mark Twain

  Country, Party, Teaching

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• Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and the percentage of energy returned on the energy invested in energy production, none currently appears capable of perpetuating this kind of society.

  Richard Heinberg

  Oil, Impact, Environmental

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• Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote for; and they’re catching on that it doesn’t even matter if you don’t vote because they have realized modern elections are just a way for the 1% to appease the 99% – a way to keep the masses in line by making them believe they’ve had their say, thereby perpetuating the lie that democracy continues.

  James Morcan

  Lying, Party, Believe

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• We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.

  Benjamin Rush

  Book, Mean, Government

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Achievement, Sexually, Highest

  1903 Don Juan to Ana. Man and Superman, act 3.

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• It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Trying, Mystery, Eternity

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse; and where there is equally vigorous effort, like distinction and success will almost surely follow. Thus the chain of example is carried down through time in an endless succession of links--admiration exciting imitation, and perpetuating the true aristocracy of genius.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Light, Flames

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.528, The Floating Press

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• Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

  Charlie Brooker

  Crush, Self, Circles

  "Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

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• I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

  Kathy Reichs

  Strong, Thinking, Self

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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