Quotes with temporary

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  • Frank Zappa A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Bertrand Russell Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mike Todd Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
    Mike Todd
     
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  • Marilyn vos Savant Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
    Marilyn vos Savant
    American magazine columnist, author and lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Demick China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • James Russell Lowell Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Denis Waitley Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Denis Waitley Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
    Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Banksy Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Brooke Elliott I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bun E. Carlos I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Mike Todd I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation
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  • Martin Luther Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Louis de Bernieres Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
    Source: Faceboek (2011)
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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