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• Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.

  William J. Bernstein

  Zero, Return, Doe

  William J. Bernstein (2002). “The Four Pillars of Investing”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

  Alan Greenspan

  People, Abnormal, May

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• To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Change, Trying

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• We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments when our minds ask: 'What next?' In these chinks of time, ask Him: 'Lord, think Thy thoughts in my mind. What is on Thy mind for me to do now?' When we ask Christ, 'What next?' we tune in and give Him a chance to pour His ideas through our enkindled imagination. If we persist, it becomes a habit.

  Frank Laubach

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Disappointment, Order, Play

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Oil And Water, Mad, Poetry

  Edgar Allan Poe (1876). “Poems and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Memoir”, p.162

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• It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when
  there is no end in sight.

  Shaun McNiff

  Creativity, Sight, Steps

  Shaun McNiff (1998). “Trust the Process”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.

  Barry Commoner

  Play, Ddt, Environmental

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• Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Violation Of Human Rights, Issues, Effort

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• The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.

  Al Gore

  Running, Years, Usa

  "'I Am Optimistic'". Interview with Philip Bethge, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 02, 2009.

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• You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

  Simon Sinek

  Stress, Should, Term

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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• I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.

  Simon Sinek

  Doe, Investing, Pay

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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• Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Senses

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Facts, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ties, Religion, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• ​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

  John Legend

  Thinking, People, Want

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 14, 2015.

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• Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

  Gary Panter

  Art, Trying, Relax

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a look at all the peoples in the world, we have to realize that the condition of women is very backward and sometimes very sad, from both the social and psychological points of view.

  Dacia Maraini

  Views, Law, Age

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.

  Kiki Dimoula

  Passion, Giving, Love Grows

  Source: blog.yupnet.org

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• By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.

  Julian Huxley

  Moving, Book, Writing

  "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" by Julian Huxley (1912) as quoted in Connie Barlow "From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences", 1991.

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• The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.

  Wade Davis

  Heart, Eye, Lenses

  Wade Davis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2009). “The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world”, House of Anansi Pr

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• It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable

  Andrew Cohen

  Ignorance, Literature, Way

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• A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

  Paul Goodman

  Successful, Community, Adequate

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.195, New York Review of Books

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