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• Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

  Robert Breault

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Self Esteem

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• Local brands evoke national pride, are seen as less profit-oriented, and are often formed on deep local insights. But quality worries persist, innovation is questioned, the information can be woefully inadequate, they are sometimes seen to be opaque and their advertising is clearly recognised as not being of a global standard. For local brands, quality, innovation and transparency are critical hills to climb.

  Miles Young

  Business, Pride, Worry

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• Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Reading, Symbolism, People

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• When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Mean, Needs

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 27, 2014

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• Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.

  Margaret George

  Water, Forever, Effort

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.934, Pan Macmillan

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• Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go." "My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting," said Tessa, and at that Jem laughed out loud.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Acting, Doe

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Artist, Generations

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• The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.

  Holly Black

  Hard Times, Funny Things, Ideas

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

  James Allen

  Fall, Loss, Self

  James Allen (2008). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.19, Penguin

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• To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mistake, Divine

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.88, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out - a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes - like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.

  Saul Bellow

  Pain, Betrayal, Cutting

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• If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Mean, Smell

  Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Real, Educational

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

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• Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Beautiful, Dream, Autumn

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• You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

  Deborah Harkness

  Blood, Best Effort, Vision

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.240, Penguin

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• So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sky, Flux, Rhythm

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.328, 谷月社

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• Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—

  Alyson Noel

  Healing, Soul, Energy

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• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Truth, Honesty

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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• If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

  Lynne Truss

  Writing, Lightning, Good Food

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• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

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• Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  People, Survivor, Tests

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.93, Basic Books

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• Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Stupidity, Surprise

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• How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

  William James

  Hate, Mind, Might

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.530, Courier Corporation

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• If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Ignorance, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.95, Penguin UK

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• The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Long, Expectations

  Sigmund Freud (1965). “New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis”

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