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  • Henry Ward Beecher Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ludwig Borne Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
    Ludwig Borne
    German journalist and critic (1786 - 1837)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Colin Powell Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Jeremy Collier Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Cal Thomas Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Johnson The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Sagan The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Charles Péguy The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Francis Bacon The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Margot Asquith The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Eric Hoffer The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • William Wordsworth The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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