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So we have the perpetual adolescent.
And it's also the story of modern capitalism, because it was the wealth from this land that gave birth to our economic system, one that cannot survive without perpetual growth and an unending supply of new frontiers.
It is a perpetual impulse that pushes galaxies apart from each other.
In other words, as I might seek to demonstrate, if you could achieve the impossible, the equivalent of perpetual motion, you could design a carbon-free house, for example.
And in return, I found a process of creating art that's perpetual and unencumbered by results.
This is a measure of global overvaluation of all markets, expressing what I call an illusion of a perpetual money machine that suddenly broke in 2007.
The problem is that we see the same process, in particular through quantitative easing, of a thinking of a perpetual money machine nowadays to tackle the crisis since 2008 in the U.S., in Europe, in Japan.
This has very important implications to understand the failure of quantitative easing as well as austerity measures as long as we don't attack the core, the structural cause of this perpetual money machine thinking.
Democracy is becoming a perpetual cycle of elect and regret.
We live in perpetual self-confrontation between the external success and the internal value.
Being the perpetual new face in class, I was frequently the target of bullies.
And there was perpetual victim blaming when these victims came to report their crimes.
Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine, a device that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source.
For example, if you could build a perpetual motion machine that included humans as part of its perfectly efficient system, it could sustain life indefinitely.
Ideas for perpetual motion machines all violate one or more fundamental laws of thermodynamics, the branch of physics that describes the relationship between different forms of energy.
That rules out a useful perpetual motion machine right away because a machine could only ever produce as much energy as it consumed.
So far, these two laws of thermodynamics have stymied every idea for perpetual motion and the dreams of perfectly efficient energy generation they imply.
Yet it's hard to conclusively say we'll never discover a perpetual motion machine because there's still so much we don't understand about the universe.
Or maybe there's perpetual motion on tiny quantum scales.
For now, the one thing that seems truly perpetual is our search.
So let's talk about the perpetual search trap.
You'd end up with a perpetual motion machine for gene editing.
On top of the constant, perpetual grief I was terrified that I would run into a family member of someone Dylan had killed, or be accosted by the press or by an angry citizen.
Now, we no longer refer to African-Americans as "colored," but this long-standing joke about our perpetual lateness to church, to cookouts, to family events and even to our own funerals, remains.
Our lives are lives of perpetual urgency.
It's one of the toughest sequences in ballet, and for those thirty seconds or so, she's like a human top in perpetual motion.
Carmen Agra Deedy: All right, then you know that you have now entered parking lot purgatory, praying to that saint of perpetual availability that as you join that serpentine line of cars crawling along, some guy's going to turn on the brake lights just as you pull up behind him.
It is disheartening to see that, with all our challenges, with all the talents, with all the skills we have in Africa as a continent, we tend to solve our problems by parachuting in experts from the West for short stays, exporting the best and brightest out of Africa, and treating Africa as a continent in perpetual need of handouts.
And they also say that they can give you perpetual motion machines and free energy systems.
Indeed, anything you add to the mashup, music you might add, Lucas has a worldwide perpetual right to exploit that for free.
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