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The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
Alexander Hamilton— No. 28
This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.
giordano bruno— As translated by Paul Harrison
To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren— In "The Law and the Future," in The public papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren (1959) edited by Henry M. Christman .
The gas leakage from Union Carbide's plant (UC) in Bhopal, in 1984 is the largest industrial hazard ever experienced in the world . Over 500, 000 were exposed to the gases; between 3000 and 10,000 people died within the first weeks; and between 100,000 and 200,000 may have permanent injuries.
— AvIngrid Eckerman, in "Bhopal Saga: Causes and Consequences of the World's Largest Industrial disaster (1 January 2005)", p.9
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war .
— Charles Babbage. The Exposition of 1851, p. xii-xiii
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
marilyn vos savant— As quoted in Perfectionism : What's Bad About Being Too Good? (1987) by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, p. 85
Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.
pitirim sorokin— Sorokin (1927) Social Mobility, p. 12
There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents.
rutherford b. hayes— Diary (14 February 1879).
good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp , through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.
h. p. lovecraft— Letter to Woodburn Harris (25 February-1 March 1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 487
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
oscar wilde— The Model Millionaire, 1912.
The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council’s insufficient representativeness.
alfred de zayas— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [17]
It is unlawful to reproduce or distribute someone else's copyrighted work without that person's authorization. Indeed, courts have entered numerous permanent injunctions and awarded statutory damages and attorneys' fees regarding infringement of these and similar works. ... preserve any and all documents pertaining to this matter...including, but not limited to, logs, data entry sheets, applications - electronic or otherwise, registrations forms, billings statements or invoices, computer print-outs, disks, hard drives, etc.
— Ava Paquette of law firm Moxon & Kobrin, legal letter to Wikileaks from Church of Scientology, after Wikileaks published its "Operating Thetan" documents — reported in Metz, Cade (April 8, 2008). "Scientology threatens Wikileaks with injunction". The Register (www.theregister.co.uk). Retrieved on 2009-03-04.
Circumcised males do not benefit from their circumcision but instead only suffer pain and permanent disfigurement of their genitalia.
— Thomas Bartman, MD, PHD Division of Neonatology University of California, San Francisco Pediatrics, Evanston, Jan 2001, Vol. 107:1, p 210
Futurists believe that accelerating and convulsive changes will characterize our world for decades to come. These will affect profoundly every political institution, and every religious institution in its mission to relate faith to societal changes. Those who enter the twenty first century can expect a continuation and acceleration of this trend toward permanent resolution.
— Norman E. Thomas, in Toward the Twenty-first Century in Christian Mission: Essays in Honor of Gerald H. Anderson, Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut, Editor, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1993, p.363
The natural alone is permanent.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter XIII
Nothing is more difficult than to determine what a child takes in, and does not take in, of its environment and its teaching. This fact is brought home to me by the hymns which I learned as a child, and never forgot. They mean more to me almost than the finest poetry, and they have for me a more permanent value, somehow or other.
— Collected in Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other Prose Works (1968).
The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
peter kropotkin— I (The State — Its Historic Role (1897))
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— Chapter III, On the Rent of Mines, p. 47
Characteristically, major social movements are spawned in obscurity at the periphery of public awareness, seem to burst suddenly and dramatically into public view, and eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
freda adler— P. 5. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))
Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).
mark twain— p. 394. (Mark Twain's Notebook (1935))
There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.
robert a. heinlein— “The Man Who Sold the Moon” Chapter 1 (p. 100). Originally published in The Man Who Sold the Moon: Harriman and the Escape from Earth to the Moon!, 1950.
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
henry kissinger— The White House Years, quoted from Dinesh D'Souza: What's So Great About America
There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.
conor oberst— Oh, You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing .
alan watts— p. 32 (The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951))
It is quite obvious therefore, that the knowledge and prudence of the poor themselves, are absolutely the only means by which any general and permanent improvement in their condition can be effected. They are really the arbiters of their own destiny; and what others can do for themselves. These truths are so important to the happiness of the great mass of society, that every opportunity should be taken of repeating them.
— Book I, Chapter V, Of the Profits of Capital, Section III, p. 279
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect . Curiosity is, in great and generous minds , the first passion and the last.
— Samuel Johnson, in John Bigland Letters on the Study and Use of Ancient and Modern History, W. W. Woodward, No. 52, corner of Second and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, 1806, p.18
The “Streisand Effect” describes what happens when an attempt to get rid of content causes it to become even more permanent.
— Michael Fertik, David Thompson (2010). Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Online Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier. Amacom. p. 56. ISBN 0814415091.
