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• My life and my whole eternity belongs to God.  All this stuff is temporary.  Money, fame, successtemporary.  Even life is temporary.  Jesusthat's eternal.

  Willie Robertson

  Stuff, Life Is, Fame

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• Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

  Thucydides

  Sacrifice, Towers, Firsts

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility of conflict - and of tragedy - can never wholly be eliminated from human life, either personal or social. The necessity of choosing between absolute claims is then an inescapable characteristic of the human condition. This gives its value to freedom as Acton conceived of it - as an end in itself, and not as a temporary need, arising out of our confused notions and irrational and disordered lives, a predicament which a panacea could one day put right.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Confused, Believe, Men

  "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, ("Two Concepts of Liberty"), 2002.

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• Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Weight, Results, Up And Down

  Dr Joel Fuhrman (2014). “The End of Dieting: How to Live for Life”, p.14, Hay House UK

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• Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.

  Aleister Crowley

  Emotional, Black, Magic

  "The Worst Man in the World". The Sunday Dispatch, July 02, 1933.

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• Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who have another agenda yet:
  to cater to the temporary whims and fads of the public and the press.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Two, Special, Pressure

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.197, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The person who achieves spectacular failure has at least attempted something bold. Failure is a temporary condition. Success is likewise temporary. Life, itself, is temporary - so quit hesitating. Do something!

  Roy H. Williams

  Quitting, Achieve, Spectacular

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• No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

  Adoniram Judson

  Mind, Eternal

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• If dislocation is a permanent state, I want to try and explore the possibility of temporary impermanence. If dislocation is a tatty dress from the thrift store, perhaps the solution is not to cast it aside. If dislocation is a tatty dress, perhaps the only solution is to mend it, scent it and wear it until everything about it signifies newness, something close to the perpetual promise of a fresh start.

  Diriye Osman

  Promise, Trying, Dresses

  "Is Dislocation a Permanent State?" by Diriye Osman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2015.

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• There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don't need permission for them. There's more truth about a camp because that is the position we are in. The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we're just passing through.

  Roger Deakin

  Beautiful, Reality, Law

  "Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees".

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• Temporary anger is no need to make permanent mistakes.

  Jessica Aguilar

  Mistake, Mma, Needs

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• It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life to return to the Garden.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Religious, Men, Garden

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• When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, President, United States

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.

  George Washington Cable

  New Orleans, Years, Cities

  George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

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• Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these are usually only temporary measures. The greatest blessing we offer others may be the belief we have in their struggle for freedom, the courage to support and accompany them as they determine for themselves the strength that will become their refuge and the foundation for their lives. I think it is especially important to believe in someone at a time when they cannot yet believe in themselves. Then your belief will become their lifeline.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Friendship, Believe, Struggle

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• When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Reflection, Opportunity, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.349, Cambridge University Press

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• Feeling better is temporary. Transformation is forever.

  Christine Kane

  Feel Better, Forever, Feelings

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• The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.454, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.

  Robert Breault

  Adversity, Thinking, Tvs

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• If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

  Robin Williams

  Suicide, Remember, Problem

  "Fictional character: Lance Clayton". "World's Greatest Dad", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Conquer The World, Arms, Earning

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.288, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Spiritual, Law, Space

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The problem [of specialization] is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Communication, Army, Order

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Selfish, Air

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2012

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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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