The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. From LearnThat.org. [Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)]
We have heard from time to time of the term perpetual motion. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Taken literally, the term perpetual motion refers to movement that goes on forever. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
While non-recurring revenues will include all revenues from non-recurring sources, which we define as perpetual license fees and professional services and other. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Rather than exhibit a selection of faits accomplis, Glaser uses this show as a narrative platform to address what he describes as a perpetual sense of "doubt and confusion.". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Tim O'Reilly, the open-source advocate, has used the term perpetual beta positively as an indication of open-source development processes wherein users are ". From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
They would like to see this country in perpetual war. From Wordnik.com. [Inouye Calls Cheney Attack] Reference
And this method of supplication they call perpetual prayer. From Wordnik.com. [The City of the Sun] Reference
The alternative is likely to be long term perpetual recession. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
Thomas Aquinas said that Jews should live in perpetual servitude. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals] Reference
Even during the Cold War, the Royal Navy was in perpetual decline. From Wordnik.com. [Sheldon Filger: Kiss the Royal Navy Goodbye: UK Economic Crisis Sinks the Fleet] Reference
It lived in perpetual apprehension of that quarter of the compass. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VI] Reference
Poor M. d'Arblay's belief in perpetual banishment is dreadful. From Wordnik.com. [Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney] Reference
The laggards are at risk of being stuck in perpetual catch-up mode. From Wordnik.com. [The Leading Class and the Lagging Class on the Web] Reference
(AP) Since the Olympics, Bode Miller has been in perpetual chill mode. From Wordnik.com. [Bode Miller in no rush to make decision about ski career] Reference
You are simply living in perpetual blissful ignorance if you believe this. From Wordnik.com. ['Mickey Mouse' subjects aren't 'easier'...] Reference
"If we didn't make light of it, we would be in perpetual tears," Reed says. From Wordnik.com. [Opry House's famed circle stays center stage after flood] Reference
His last season was 1966, where he won 27 games pitching in perpetual agony. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Steroids and the Hall of Fame] Reference
Referring to Horizon's Idaho farm, he adds: This area is in perpetual drought. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
So sad, an entire city stuck in perpetual fashion stasis, the endless Summer, 2005. From Wordnik.com. [When the Vans Are Rockin'...] Reference
Herzog seems to be in perpetual search of a subject as interesting as Klaus Kinski. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Encounters at the End of the World] Reference
Clavain, the group's leader, has secluded himself from the group in perpetual gloom. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds] Reference
A Mazatlan mermaid is captured in perpetual performance for strollers and lovers alike. From Wordnik.com. [A Mazatlan mermaid is captured in perpetual performance for strollers and lovers alike. © Gerry Soroka, 2009] Reference
Figures, seeing that the RCC lives in perpetual denial of their unholiness and ungodliness. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.] Reference
Stojakovic was in perpetual motion, launching a jumper when given even the slightest opening. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Kings overcome another deficit to win series 3-1] Reference
Sunlight can burn, but the alternative is living in perpetual shadow. posted by Matthew @ 10: 00 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
It would be in perpetual crisis even if there was no fiat money at all, and all money was metallic. From Wordnik.com. [they just don’t seem to get it] Reference
Because the Strat-Houses will float above the cloud layer, they will be bathed in perpetual sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive] Reference
There is another faith as to the fate of souls, best stated, perhaps, in the phrase perpetual migration. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
The gloom of the place was awful, and turned the rank foliage of trees and shrubs black in perpetual twilight. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference
Yet the condition for that happiness is that one young child must be locked away in perpetual squalor and misery. From Wordnik.com. [Not everyone will finish the Marine Corps Marathon. That's what makes it a race.] Reference
The world is controlled by three functionally similar totalitarian superstates engaged in perpetual war with each other. From Wordnik.com. [Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four] Reference
That voice, that one-time awe-inspiring natural resource now sounds polluted and in perpetual need of a throat-clearing. From Wordnik.com. [The revenge of the voice] Reference
It really embarrasses me that so many Americans want to live in perpetual frightened announcement that people want to kill us. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Al-Qaeda’s New Problem] Reference
Obeid warned, if not stopped, the European Union’s actions could plunge the continent into what he described as perpetual subjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Sudan to Reject Decisions from AU-EU Summit] Reference
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