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  I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

  Mario Lopez

  Talking, Study, Always Learning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

  Benjamin Constant

  Art, Sake, Purpose

  'Journal intime' 11 February 1804, in 'Revue Internationale' 10 January 1887 p. 96 (describing a conversation with Crabb Robinson about the latter's work on Kant's aesthetics).

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• The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life, Courage, Struggle

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• The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 28, 2016

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• Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

  Peace Pilgrim

  God, Peace, Oneness

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.75, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Reality, Men

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 01, 2012

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• A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  Washington Irving

  Birthday, Anger, Age

  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon "Rip Van Winkle" (1819 - 1820)

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• The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

  John L. Lewis

  Organization, Greed, Selfishness

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

  John Cale

  Thinking, Done, Kind

  "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

  Peter Sotos

  Fashion, Thinking, Ideas

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• Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Men, Order

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.171, A&C Black

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• Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

  Vaclav Havel

  Life, Struggle, Hero

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 08, 1975.

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• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Animal, Men

  Readers Digest, 1934.

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• A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

  George Jean Nathan

  Success, Work, Stress

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Relationship, Karma, Kindness

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

  Douglas Horton

  Beauty, Variables, Imperfect

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• Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

  Anne Baxter

  Home, Temptation, Devil

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• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

  Charles William Eliot

  Book, Reading, Library

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Performers

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• Acting is constant exploration.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Acting, Exploration

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• The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

  Francis Parker Yockey

  War, Class, Important

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.118, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Careers, Choices, Doubt

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

  Don Young

  Nature, Want, Stills

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