James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
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Eternal
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Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor."
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Military Leader
"Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity."
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"In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom."
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"Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy."
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"People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now."
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"That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging."
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"Patience is eternal genius"
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"Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe."
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"The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally."
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"Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal."
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"In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths."
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"Energy is an eternal delight."
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"Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be."
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"Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest."
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"Write only of what is important and eternal."
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"He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public."
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"There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal."
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge."
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"The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance."
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"What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it."
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"It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores"
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