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«We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.»
Author: Chuang Tzu
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autumn, cling, cling to, depended, gradually, pass away, permanence, point of view, view as
«Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses / those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.»
Author: Richard Ford
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aroma, Buildings, connect, consoling, construe, construed, crowding, designation, glimpsed, inert, Latter day, musty, nostalgic, permanence, provisional, pungent, schoolyard, smudge, smudged, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, turf, vivid
«Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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advantage, drawing, expressive, gesture, permanence
«Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Determination,
Perseverance,
Persistence,
Soul
| Keywords:
discouragement, distinguishes, impossibilities, Obstacles, permanence, perseverance, persistence, spite
«Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
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assumes, demonstrated, inconsistent, natural law, natural laws, natural science, opposed, permanence, rests, uniformity
«Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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crystallize, crystallized, crystallizes, permanence, unchangeable
«Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Happiness,
Sadness
| Keywords:
Company of, gladness, permanence, Plac, responsive
«Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
compounded, derives, permanence, tenderness
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