#transient

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. ↗

— Guru Nanak

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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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Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick. ↗

— Robert Plant

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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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If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. ↗

— James Bovard

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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

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. ↗

— James Stockdale

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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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