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Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.
ilana mercer— "Party of Traitors," WorldNetDaily.com, May 26, 2006.
Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.
— "Party of Traitors," WorldNetDaily.com, May 26, 2006.
But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!
john milton— 1665 Adam muses on death. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.808-20.
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.
washington irving— "The Mutabilities of Literature".
All theories on losing weight and staying fit work only for the one who proposed the theory. The fees paid to enroll in such programs serve mainly to ensure the perpetuity of these programs.
— Carlson's Law of Physical Fitness[ ]
Will we ever again be able to view a public object with civic dignity, unencumbered by commercial messages? Must city buses be fully painted as movable ads, lampposts smothered, taxis festooned, even seats in concert halls sold one by one to donors and embellished in perpetuity with their names on silver plaques?
stephen jay gould— "The Lying Stones of Marrakech", p. 25
It’s the jihadists who decided to make the world a battlefield and to wage war in perpetuity. Until they abandon the field, what choice do we have but to carry the fight to them?
charles krauthammer— Column, February 15, 2013, "In defense of Obama’s drone war" at jewishworldreview.com.
The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.
ilana mercer— “A Palin Third-Party?” WorldNetDaily.com, January 15, 2010.
All theories on losing weight and staying fit work only for the one who proposed the theory. The fees paid to enroll in such programs serve mainly to ensure the perpetuity of these programs.
— Carlson's Law of Physical Fitness[ ]
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Self-Love.
