#maintain

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#activities #day-to-day #disease #early #experience

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it. ↗

— Edward Bond

#government #itself #maintain #needs #whatever

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#ages #attack #enemy #every #god

To oppose something is to maintain it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#oppose #something

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#even #hope #hopes #maintained #out

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#dutch #englishman #fairly #families #maintain

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#building #continuing #country #east #entire

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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