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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
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
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 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
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
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).
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
The word permanent?had its own kind of revenge on those who misused it, for the Bible said that nothing was permanent and everything came and went.
Janet Paterson also known as Jean Paterson Frame Frame— 1982 To the Is-land, ch.2,'Toward the Is-Land'.
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.
norman borlaug— 1970 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.
james a. michener— page 591 (Poland (1983))
I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country.
pieter willem botha— Speaking to parliament on May 11, 1964 as Minister for Coloured Affairs, as quoted in The Guardian 7 February 2006.
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— Elliot's Debates, volume 2, p. 364. (28 July 1788)
Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
Franz Kafka— 50; Der Mensch kann nicht leben ohne ein dauerndes Vertrauen zu etwas Unzerstörbarem in sich, wobei sowohl das Unzerstörbare als auch das Vertrauen ihm dauernd verborgen bleiben können. Eine der Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten dieses Verborgen-Bleibens ist der Glaube an einen persönlichen Gott.
That which is impossible has a permanent and constant property, which is not the result if some agent, and cannot in any way change, and consequently we do not ascribe to God the power of doing what is impossible.
maimonides— Ch.15 (Part III)
I am heartily glad that Elgin and Grant determined to burn down the Summer Palace and that "the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood"... It was absolutely necessary to stamp by some such permanent record our indignation at the treachery and brutality of these Tartars, for Chinese they are not.
temple, henry, 3rd viscount palmerston— Letter to Sidney Herbert (20 December 1860), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), pp. 538-539.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
— Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics.
We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.
— F. J. Dickman, Review of Lecture by Rufus Choate, Providence Journal (Dec. 14, 1849).
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 (1975) Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal. p.5.
tommorow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now
— E. E. Cummings, in XXXIX, in 1 x 1 (1944)
