- Cruel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Permanent Quotes
Reflections on what stays fixed while everything else shifts.
Some things resist change, whether it is a role earned through years of practice, a scientific threshold, or unemployment treated as an unacceptable fixture rather than a phase. This set of permanent quotes gathers lines on stability and endurance. Browse More related collections alongside it.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Neighbors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia holds a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. This is a privilege, and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020