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• Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing fine. And eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. We are now facing a possible dark age which is going to be world-wide and permanent! That's not fun. That's a different thing. But once we have established many worlds, we can do whatever we want as long as we do it one world at a time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fun, Dark, Moon

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• Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

  John Steinbeck

  Cities, Paris, San Francisco

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• That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

  Charles Hodge

  Office, Historical, Facts

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.60

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• I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Unique, Challenges, Growth

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• Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Quitting, Surrender

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• Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Reading, Acceptance

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• The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Player, America

  "Baseball's lesson for Washington" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Writing, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.48, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.

  Frank Zappa

  Believe, Destiny, Government

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• We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, Expectations, Victory

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems.

  Valentina

  Real, Problem, Difficulty

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• Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.

  Sandra Scarr

  Change, Children, Past

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• It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

  Julius Caesar

  Punishment, Long, May

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• What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leadership, Past, Men

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• Fame is temporary, make it longterm by putting smiles on people's hearts and helping others by expecting nothing in return. Be famous and unforgettable for your Unconditional Love.

  Arsi Nami

  Heart, Unconditional Love, Helping Others

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

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• The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.

  Philip Yancey

  Disappointment, Keys, Doe

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.202, Harper Collins

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• Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

  Dottie Walters

  Motivational, Perseverance, Rejection

  Dottie Walters (2002). “Speak and Grow Rich: Revised and Updated”, p.75, Penguin

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• All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Book, Forever, Political

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.269, Indiana University Press

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• In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

  John Eccles

  Sleep, Self, Order

  "Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain: The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism" by Donald E. Watson and Bernard O. Williams, 2003.

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• If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Monk, Humans

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mind, Relief, May

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• Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sea, Suffering, Comfort

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 207), 1895.

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• Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Discovery, Discipline, Fields

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• Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sacrifice, Safety, Liberty

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• A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Feet, People

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press, USA

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