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There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
Change
Nothing
Except
Permanent
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice
Peace
Battle
I Am
Independence
Way
Immoral
Temporary
About
Both
Fact
Results
Spite
Never
Frequently
Permanent
Permanent Peace
Am
Impractical
Won
Often
Nations
Achieving
Victories
Racial
Momentary
Brings
Violence
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love
Love Is
Fear
Power
Other
Punishment
Thousand
Thousand Times
Kinds
More
Obtained
Permanent
Effective
Times
Then
Derived
Based
Acts
Two
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
George Washington
Natural
Revenge
Party
Despotism
Spirit
Horrid
More
Faction
Sharpened
Countries
Leads
Over
Most
Alternate
Another
Permanent
Itself
Domination
Frightful
Different
Different Ages
Formal
Which
Length
Ages
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Good
Evil
Object
Temporary
Only
Because
Does
Permanent
Appears
Violence
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Prosperity
Political
Inflation
First
Nation
Ruin
Temporary
Both
Economic
Permanent
Currency
Refuge
Second
Bring
Panacea
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Phil Donahue
Problem
Suicide
Solution
Temporary
Permanent
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
Giving
Giving Up
Temporary
Makes
Permanent
Condition
Up
Often
Being
Defeated
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Life
Not Knowing
Intolerable
Possible
Only
Uncertainty
Knowing
Makes
Permanent
The Only Thing
Next
Thing
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Death
Free
Nothing
White
Pay
Must
Physical
Brothers
Spirit
Brothers And Sisters
More
Price
Permanent
Sisters
Then
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
Man
Fear
Safety
Unknown
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Complex
Above
Emotion
He
Permanent
Inexplicable
Inferior
Wants
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
Jeff Greenfield
Life
Good
History
People
Fate
Bad People
Random
Good People
Long
Live
Our
Our Lives
Bad
Small
Powerful
Well
Comfortable
Permanent
Dealt
Hand
End
Privileged
Human
Human History
Who
Each
Lives
Twist
Player
Chance
Save
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Failure
Matter
Giving
Giving Up
Odds
Believe
Temporary
Never
Permanent
Up
Mantra
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt
Home
Values
Responsibility
Settings
State
Neglect
Our
At-Risk
Facilitate
Abuse
Safe
Return
Return Home
Permanent
Provide
Offend
Child
Child Abuse
Children
Cannot
Placement
Who
Basic
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London
Me
Space
Dust
Every
Sleepy
Would
Superb
Atom
Rather
Magnificent
Permanent
Glow
Meteor
Than
Ashes
Planet
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
Albert Camus
People
Cause
Matter
Innocent
Will
Defends
Innocent People
Crowds
Attacks
Blind
Permanent
Disgrace
Suffer
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
Jimmy Carter
Win
Sides
Unless
Both
Both Sides
Permanent
Agreement
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka
Success
Failure
Permanent
Fatal
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman
Government
Nothing
Temporary
Permanent
Government Program
Program
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
Better
Permanent
Than
Fascinating
Income
Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
Dada Vaswani
Life
Relationship
Marriage
Commitment
Lifelong
Permanent
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Mary Ritter Beard
Travel
Change
Living
Sights
Seeing
More
Ideas
Permanent
Than
Goes
Certainly
Deep
Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.
Steven Wright
Setting
Press
Permanent
How
Get
Irons
Notice
Ever
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton
Change
Consist
Possible
Must
Constitutions
General
Only
Calculate
Permanent
Provisions
Cannot
Should
Reason
Things
Necessarily
The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.
Jared Kushner
Love
Friendship
Day
Family
End Of The Day
Rest
Down
Lesson
Only
Stuff
Permanent
End
Just
Really
Boils
Things
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Pain
Never
Permanent
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