#immutable

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. ↗

— Philip Knight

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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. ↗

— Owen Feltham

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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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