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My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
Lech Walesa

Crisis, Help, May

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Robert Wilson Lynd

Life, Amazing, Two

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London

Rather, Planet, Sleepy

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
Bob Woodward

Before, Needs, Media

When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.
Sara Blakely

Change, Tired, Long

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Makes, Knowing

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.
Margaret Cho

Wanted, Body, Thin

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
James Stockdale

Character, Issues, Transient

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
Jean Kerr

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.
John Sununu

Job, Different, Matter

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener

Life, Dreams, Reality

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.
Jeffrey Kluger

Everything, Makes, Injuries

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
Eric Alterman

Politics, True, Political

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
Jim DeMint

America, Door, Class

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
James A. Garfield

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.
Sri Chinmoy

Love, God, Accept

The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
Lev Grossman

Country, Fact, State

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.
Junior Seau

Age, Football, Remember

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.
Lawrence Summers

Government, Situation, Cash

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.
Robert Shea

Labor, Class, Conflict

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
Cornel West

Government, Country, Between

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
David O. McKay

Peace, Men, Made

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Phil Donahue

Problem, Solution, Temporary

Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.
Craig Bruce

Become, Problems, Often

We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Give, Working, Making

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.
Michael Nesmith

Music, Away, Point

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
Barbara Boxer

Great, Perfect, Away

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler

Life, Human, Desire

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.
Evo Morales

Mind, United, Nightmare

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.
Leo Burnett

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