#perish

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

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Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#dark #exercised #gave #himself #his

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

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If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

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All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. ↗

— Ben Okri

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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. ↗

— Ovid

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