Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"The only thing permanent is change."
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Permanent
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Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not."
Michel Foucault
Philosopher, Social Theorist
"What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities."
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"Nothing is permanent but change."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit."
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"Declines are temporary, gains are permanent."
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"Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent."
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"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."
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"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."
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"There is nothing permanent in the world except change."
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"Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity, unfortunately, is permanent."
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"Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles."
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"Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence"
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"Our permanent address is tommorrow."
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"At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable."
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"The natural alone is permanent."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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"Nothing is permanent."
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"My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary."
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"Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty."
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"The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings."
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"and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality."
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"Nothing is of a permanent nature."
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"No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him."
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"What is not hereditary cannot be permanent."
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