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Kurt Vonnegut quote: "He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he..."
He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent. Kurt Vonnegut
You think of me as a… living stone — hard and cold. That’s true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There’s no going back… Stephenie Meyer
Neil Peart quote: "No changes are permanent, but change is."
No changes are permanent, but change is. Neil Peart
Alan Watts quote: "The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to..."
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones. Raymond Chandler
Bertrand Russell quote: "The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of..."
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. Bertrand Russell
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing... George Washington
[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. Christopher Hitchens
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face. Bill Bryson
This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur. David Attenborough
Bill Watterson quote: "The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never..."
The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin) Bill Watterson
But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching. Jodi Picoult
Abraham Lincoln quote: "You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what..."
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. Abraham Lincoln
Cynthia Ozick quote: "What we remember from childhood we remember forever -..."
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. Cynthia Ozick
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. Graham Greene

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