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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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Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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

— St. Jerome

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

— James Stockdale

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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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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. ↗

— Robert South

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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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