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His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected. ↗

— Robert Welch

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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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

— Horst Koehler

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