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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Charles Baudelaire | top
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. Arnold Bennett | top
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If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. James Bovard | top
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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. Tracey Emin | top
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Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. Stephen Jay Gould | top
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What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble. James Grainger | top
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. Robert Green Ingersoll | top
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! St. Jerome | top
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I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. Horst Koehler | top
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! Walter Savage Landor | top
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This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear. Gerry Mulligan | top
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Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. Guru Nanak | top
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The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. Cecil Frank Powell | top
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. Vladimir Putin | top
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I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient. Kevin Rollins | top
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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. Robert South | top
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. Baruch Spinoza | top
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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. James Stockdale | top
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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. Jock Sturges | top
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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. Gene Tierney | top
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His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected. Robert Welch | top
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Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. Christoph Martin Wieland | top
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Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. Wilhelm Wundt | top