#durable

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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