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According to economist Harold Innis, “stone, clay tablets and parchment are ‘heavy’ media which enable a civilization to anchor itself in the past and eternalize itself.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2015

Every family had its own, dead or alive, oftener dead, and wanted to eternalize his features.

From Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland

The thirst of eternity is what is called love among men, and whosoever loves another wishes to eternalize himself in him.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

May we not say, perhaps, that the evil man is annihilated because he wished to be annihilated, or that he did not wish strongly enough to eternalize himself because he was evil?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

Some thoughts and feelings, then, eternalize themselves in human speech; most thoughts and feelings do not.

From A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry

In the same piece, she said that “racism and prejudice are omnipresent and eternalized in America’s institutions.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2014

Association, fixed and eternalized by the structure of the language, is the tyranny that keeps down the live idea.

From The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair

The war-cries of the two opponents, however, became eternalized as factional names in the struggle of Frederick's successors against other foes.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

The environment becomes thus described as a single, eternal, conscious unity, in which all the actual but transitory values of the actual but transitory life are conserved and eternalized.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

Or perhaps thus: Act as if you were to die to-morrow, but to die in order to survive and be eternalized.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

It was easy to imagine Hals set up with his easel here, eternalizing the residents’ animated faces.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021

Imagine bottling the scent of someone you love, eternalizing them forever, allowing you to dive into a fond memory of that person with just one whiff.

From National Geographic ● May 10, 2018

This eternal and eternalizing person who gives meaning—and I will add, a human meaning, for there is none other—to the Universe, is it a substantial something, existing independently of our consciousness, independently of our desire?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

What love desires is the eternalizing of the idea of flesh and blood.

From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys

To be, to be for ever, to be without ending! thirst of being, thirst of being more! hunger of God! thirst of love eternalizing and eternal! to be for ever! to be God!

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch