“ With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continuously threatened with burial by the shifting sands… ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. ”
- Margaret Drabble- Copy
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“ Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. ”
- J. B. Priestley- Copy
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“ This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you. ”
- Shakti Gawain- Copy
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“ There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
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“ Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering — that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead. ”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Copy
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“ Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry. ”
- Josiah Royce- Copy
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“ A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. ”
- B.C. Forbes- Copy
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“ I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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“ Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
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“ The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. ”
- Sir Heneage Ogilvie- Copy
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“ The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful. ”
- Parke Godwin- Copy
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“ The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; — for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ Let the movement be slow and savour of solidity at the base and rise quivering to the tree tops and to the sky, always rising to meet it joyously and tremulously… the spirit must be… perpetually moving through, carrying on and inducing a thirst for more and a desire to rise. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
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“ There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it's really going to work, the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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“ My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. ”
- Elizabeth Gaskell- Copy
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“ Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all.You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want… ”
- Dr. Joyce Brothers- Copy
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“ If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle — absolute busyness — then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide. An age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy — and without consciousness. ”
- Gunther Grass- Copy
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“ Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ”
- Harriet Martineau- Copy
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