#transient

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. ↗

— Christoph Martin Wieland

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The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! ↗

— St. Jerome

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What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble. ↗

— James Grainger

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. ↗

— Tracey Emin

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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#except #fame #gone #left #little

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. ↗

— Horst Koehler

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