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Both have now embarked on the quest for that most elusive of all permanencies: a lasting peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly unreal, and the glory of both is fleeting.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

When deterioration occurs in the conditions that make literacy possible and necessary, many of the permanencies associated with literacy, including the interpersonal relations adapted to it, or the homogeneity of nations, fail.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

It is the business and the art of life to degrade permanencies.

From Here are Ladies by Stephens, James

Is it because 'tis unsubstantial all—senseless, though fair—and in its evanescence unsuited to the sympathies that yearn for the permanencies of breathing life?

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde