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• Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

  Agnes Repplier

  Funny, Humor, Understanding

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• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

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• She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Waiting, Forte, Always Waiting

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3793, Delphi Classics

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• With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Perseverance, Chinese, Perseverence

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Generosity, Quality, Persistent

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• God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

  Willie Aames

  Children, Heart, Giving

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• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  Jack Ma

  Should Have, Important, Alibaba

  "Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Make Up Your Mind, Yahoo". Interview with Peter Kafka, allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Space, Challenges, Bulls

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• It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

  Hart Crane

  Taken, Order, Waiting

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

  Dalai Lama

  Enemy, Conditions

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.129, Penguin

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• As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

  T. E. Brown

  Mother, Sweet, Hopeful

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• So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Taken, Thinking, Patient

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• I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

  Tyrone Power

  Fear, Done, Stuff

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

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Fitness

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

  Markus Zusak

  Crazy, Rain, Book

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.62, Random House

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• The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Cookies, Want

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

  M. J. Ryan

  Vegetables, Growing, Gardener

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• I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Men, Evolution

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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• Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

  Criss Jami

  Passion, Persistence, Perfection

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.100, Criss Jami

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• When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Mean, Rights, Difficult Situations

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• Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

  Gary Paulsen

  Thinking, Waiting, Patience And Waiting

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

  Ray Harryhausen

  People, Directors

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• Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Death, Giving, One Day

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Persistence, Water, Perfection

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

  Frances O'Grady

  Running, Agreement, Long

  "The derisory pensions offer hits women workers hard" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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