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• In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

  Lennart Meri

  Past, Hunters, Film

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• They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Lying, Difficult, Hoping For The Best

  "Nation-Building Lite" by Michael Ignatieff, www.nytimes.com. July 28, 2002.

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• It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Gold, Variation

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.46

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• War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

  Dan Simmons

  Children, Pain, War

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.116, Spectra

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• To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and evacuation, must, of course, be considered as nothing more than temporary expedients, they do help to provide practical experience which should be of great importance in view of the coming Endlösung (Final Solution) of the Jewish question.

  Reinhard Heydrich

  Views, Emigration, Approval

  Speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin, on January 20, 1942. "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken: The "Final Solution". Book by A. J. Mayer, p. 304, 1990.

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• This is not about the aesthetics: there is a rule in a society: "Whoever you deal with, makes you become them", therefore watching the efforts of para-athletes can bring the temporary mobility disorder. If we want humanity to develop, the television should show us people who are healthy, beautiful, strong, honest and wise - not perverts, murderers, weaklings, losers, idiots or invalids.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

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• Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights and the dignity of man are distinctly Western, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. And while dialogue is dignified; dhimmitude is not, even if it achieves a desired, if temporary, effect.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Rights, Ideas

  "B. Hussein in History Wonderland" by Ilana Mercer, www.ilanamercer.com. August 21, 2009.

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• I had always dreamed of being involved in a job where I could do anything related to animals and nature. A vet maybe. But later I came to understand that it was just a temporary interest and that music was more important to me.

  Tarkan

  Jobs, Animal, Important

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

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• Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

  Tim Brady

  Cfo, Entrepreneur, Ceo

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• I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Disappointment, Mistake, Order

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

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• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

  Robert Collier

  Mistake, Lying, Adversity

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• The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Views, Religion

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Spiritual, Distance

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

  Napoleon Hill

  Gratitude, Blessing, Temporary Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.34, Penguin

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• [The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Believe, Space

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• Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

  Ray Lewis

  Pain, Long, Matter

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• Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

  Benjamin Graham

  Adversity, Should, Teach

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Personality, Samskara, Infancy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Curiosity, Age

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

  Bob Schieffer

  Mean, Literature, Life Is

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• If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

  Gemma Chan

  Disappointment, Regret, Work Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'

  Erasmus Darwin

  Pain, Together, Vehemence

  Erasmus Darwin (1818). “Zoonomia”, p.330

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• I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Beautiful, Great Love, Lucky

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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