#durable

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ↗

— William James

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It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

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The word of man is the most durable of all material. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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