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• Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Ideas, Feelings, Environmental

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• No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Helping Someone, Long, Aids

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• What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of difficulty. What is true success in life? True success means winning in your battle with yourself. Those who persist in the pursuit of their dreams, no matter what the hurdles, are winners in life, for they have won over their weaknesses.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Dream, Giving Up, Mistake

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.107, Middleway Press

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• If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Ignorance, Self

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• It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Caring, Thinking

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• I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Teacher, Pressure, Difficulty

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• You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

  Brian Tracy

  Long, Goal, Enough

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2015

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• I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.

  Andy Andrews

  Dream, Choices, Focus

  Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.275, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Soul, Fear Of Death

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• Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.

  Rick Warren

  Attitude, People, Hopeful

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• To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

  Peter Gizzi

  Honest, Being Honest, Easy

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• Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

  Richard Eder

  Character, Energy, Sophisticated

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• For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

  Adrian Bejan

  Way, Flow, Size

  Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan (2012). “Convection in Porous Media”, p.135, Springer Science & Business Media

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• It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Errors, Giving, Judging

  "Craig v. Harney, 331 U.S. 367". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 19, 1947.

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• The female brain may confer distinctive economic advantages, to the benefit of all, and we should, therefore, pursue seriously having equal numbers of women in topic economic and financial posts. If we persist in having unequal numbers, then we should advantage the women and have a smaller percentage of men.

  Semir Zeki

  Men, Numbers, Brain

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• For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.

  Karl Hess

  Responsibility, Class, Two

  Karl Hess (1975). “Dear America”, William Morrow &Company

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• The social body persists although the component cells may change.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cells, Body, May

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

  Richard Dawkins

  Culture, Belief, Evolution

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Trying, Impossible, Great Power

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• The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.

  Alexander Lowen

  Memories, Long, Feelings

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• The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.

  Will Rogers

  Stars, Sleep, Self

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• Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Past, Law, Evil

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Men, Vanity

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Shadows from the Big Woods", p. 225), 1977.

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• India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Conflict, Social

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.24, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

  Marshall Field

  Reality, Guarantees, Speech

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