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permanence

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Alt. of Permanency

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. Henri Matisse

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. Jane Jacobs

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. Tryon Edwards

The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity. Harold Innis

Women can do nothing that has permanence. Selma Lagerlöf

As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth. Afghan Proverb

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