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• The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

  Frank Herbert

  Errors, Principles, Accidents

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• One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

  Frank Rich

  News, Century, Tics

  "What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2009.

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• Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

  Yatin Patel

  Perseverance, Perception, Promise

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• Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Cancer, Food, Athlete

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010..

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• Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.

  Emmet Fox

  Keys, Overcoming, Golden

  Emmet Fox “The Golden Key to Prayer”, DMC

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• Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Errors, Principles

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.243, Penguin

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• As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Long, Black

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Science, Psychology, Analysis

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.

  Raoul Bott

  Math, Two, Way

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• Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find it incomprehensible that so many people could have attracted themselves to the event. By the law of attraction, they had to be on the same frequency as the event. . . .those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, People, Secret

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• I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.

  Lana Del Rey

  Regret, Writing, Ambition

  "Lana Del Rey has a problem with our interview ... but why?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2014.

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• Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out of regularity. It has to be very persistent and a continuity has to be maintained. Even to miss for one day is to destroy much - and at least one hour every day has to be given to it.

  Rajneesh

  Missing, Effort, Meditation

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• The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Way

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• Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stress, Men, Temptation

  Walter Lippmann (1959). “The Public Philosophy”

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• Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Long, Goal, Laughing

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• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Pain, Optimism

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 12 (1925)

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• Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Spiritual, Needs, Cost

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• Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

  Witold Rybczynski

  Eye, Television Watching, Ears

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• Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

  Theodore Martin

  Art, Work, Believe

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• Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Giving Up, Persistence, Men

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• Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is gained, and very much is lost, by persistent niggardliness in this direction.

  Charles Lapworth

  Time, Science, Reckless

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• Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Tasks, Enthusiasm

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• Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

  Reid Hoffman

  Vision, Flexible

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• All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

  Robert Adams

  Land, Grace, Matter

  Robert Adams, University of Missouri--St. Louis. Gallery 210 (1976*). “Aspects of American photography, 1976: April 1-April 30, 1976, Gallery 210”

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• But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

  William Ralph Inge

  Powerful, Men, Average

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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