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The sacred principles of Ingsoc. New-speak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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If, for example, the reader is convinced that it is more probable matter is mutable as regards form but eternal as regards essence, than that it was willed into existence by a Being said to be eternal and immutable, he at once becomes a Universalist—for if matter always was, no Being could have been before it, nor can any exist after it.
Charles Southwell. Superstition Unveiled (1854)
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That the I-Kiribati could not conceive of a world or a state of existence that precluded the immutability, the constancy of the ocean, was not surprising. To view life from an atoll, where land and all that resides upon it seems acutely impermanent, is to view the ocean as other, more tethered cultures perceive the universe.
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"Zeno wanted to show that the universe is made up of one unique and immutable being and that movement does not exist. He used paradoxes to do so. [...]."
Melania G. Mazzucco. Limbo (Virginia Jewiss translation), p.111 (2014)
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The girl’s compliance had to be an absolute, immutable fact.
Markus Zusak. The Book Thief (2007)
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