#momentary

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? ↗

— Ada Cambridge

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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

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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

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My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. ↗

— Roman Polanski

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. ↗

— Morley Safer

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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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