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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. Diane Ackerman | top
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. Felix Adler | top
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Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. Kingsley Amis | top
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. Marcus Aurelius | top
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade. Barnabe Barnes | top
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. Jacob Bronowski | top
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? Ada Cambridge | top
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Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does. Jonathan Carroll | top
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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. Lord Chesterfield | top
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He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace. Eugene Field | top
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. Robert Frost | top
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Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. Thomas Griffith | top
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. John Keats | top
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard | top
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word. F. L. Lucas | top
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There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. Robert Wilson Lynd | top
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect. Patrick MacGill | top
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Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure. John Otto | top
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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all. Mandy Patinkin | top
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My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. Roman Polanski | top
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Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. Morley Safer | top
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith | top
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The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. Bruce Springsteen | top
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If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him. Howard Staunton | top
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. G. M. Trevelyan | top