Persistent Quotes - Page 9

• Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Prayer, Simple, Comfort

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Matter, Belief

  "Saving the American Idea: Rejecting Fear, Envy, and the Politics of Division". Speech at The Heritage Foundation, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), www.heritage.org. November 15, 2011.

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• And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

  Tom Vilsack

  America, People, Poverty

  "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Powerful, Champion, Faces

  "Elizabeth Edwards: 'With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too'". Elizabeth Edwards' speech at Consumer Watchdog’s 2007 Rage for Justice dinner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Thinking, Years

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• Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And because of this persistent inquiry about how and why, it goes on missing all that is beyond the boundaries of machines. Life is beyond the boundaries of machines.

  Rajneesh

  Missing, Mind, Inquiry

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• A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander
  Into regions yet untrod
  And read what is still unread
  In the manuscripts of God.

  Willis R. Whitney

  God, Science, Age

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• The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Support, Pseudoscience, Blind

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Imagination, Design, Fossils

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• I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

  Les Dawson

  Witty, Wind, Doctors

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• Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

  Mildred Dresselhaus

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Sight

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• A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry hit geological boundaries, which meant that it could no longer maintain the historic growth rates in petroleum extraction.

  Michael Kumhof

  Impact, Keys, Oil

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• Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Winning, Class, Effort

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• It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Illinois, Law, Luck

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• Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in fact reductions, the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects

  Christina Romer

  Philosophy, Cutting, Impact

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• The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.

  Eve Curie

  Science, Animal, Scent

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• The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, Race, Doors

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1108, Best Books on

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• When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things happen-you will find a pattern. Through their persistent efforts and inner struggle, they have greatly expanded their four native human intelligences or capacities. The highest manifestations of these four intelligences are: for mental, vision; for the physical, discipline; for the emotional, passion; for the spiritual, conscience. These manifestations also represent our highest means of expressing our voice.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Struggle, Passion

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• Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

  George Eliot

  Self, Vision, Height

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.165, Booklassic

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• By persistent hard work you will rise to success, but ultimately your accomplishments will be measured by how you treated your loved ones on the way up.

  Wes Fesler

  Hard Work, Accomplishment, Way

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• It takes someone pretty persistent to stick it out with me.

  Jessalyn Gilsig

  Sticks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

  Eric S. Raymond

  Delusion, Software, Service Industry

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.120, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

  Robert Greene

  Persistence, Keys, People

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

  Earl Nightingale

  Persistence, Have Faith, Strangest Secret

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

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• I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Order, Political, Suffering

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