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• God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

  John Piper

  Grace, Drink, Easier

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• When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Talking, Doubt

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Long, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.326, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

  Alan Cumming

  Real, Struggle, Character

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 7, 2010.

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• We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.

  David Cooperrider

  Organization, Systems Change, Inquiry

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• Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Long, Consistency, Purpose

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• Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

  Horace Greeley

  Mean, Cutting, Winter

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• The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end

  Claude M. Bristol

  Inspirational, Time, Clear Goals

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Memories, Spring, Air

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.350, Pearson Education

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• The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.

  Walter Wangerin

  Pain, Grief, Character

  Walter Wangerin (1993). “Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr”, Harpercollins

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• Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself.  The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Healing, Keys, Diversity

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• The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Children, School, Emotional

  Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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• Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Inspirational, Years, My Best Friend

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

  Alice James

  Loss, Vulgarity Is, Trials

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.

  Shinzo Abe

  Recovery, Numbers, Self

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• There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Grace, Religion

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• What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Recovery, Democracy, Progress

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• It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Effort, Sound, Enthusiasm

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• Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings

  Alexander Lowen

  Love, Faith, Children

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• To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.

  George Henry Lewes

  Love Is, Soul, Delight

  George Henry Lewes (2011). “The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries from Published and Unpublished Sources”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, Growth, Sound

  "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for Robert De Niro there's Al Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Mountain, Actors, Scrutiny

  "Come February, the world will be sick of my face". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.

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• If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

  Tahir Shah

  Keys, Alcohol, Hot

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.186, Lulu.com

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• The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

  Matthew Arnold

  Found, Best Poetry

  Essays in Criticism Second Series, "The Study of Poetry" (1888)

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• And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Reality, Self

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

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