Persist Quotes - Page 14

• In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

  Kofi Annan

  Our World, Eras, Poverty

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• a few days ago she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes. Syrio was teaching her to see with her ears and her nose and her skin, she told him. Before that, he had her doing spinds and back flips. "Arya, are you certain you want to persist in this?" She nodded. "Tomorrow we're going to catch cats." "Cats." Ned sighed.

  George R. R. Martin

  Teaching, Eye, Cat

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.289, Bantam

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• What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

  Buddhadasa

  Inspirational, Suffering, World

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• We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

  Louise Erdrich

  Forever, Sorrow, Keep Going

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• But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Strong, Passion, Heart

  Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, John Silence Series, Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Wave, The Listener…”, p.2578, e-artnow

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• Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Lying, Together Again, Two

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.27, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.

  Rajneesh

  Christ Consciousness, Relaxation, Enlightenment

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• I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Distance, Inspire

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• . . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Eye, Heart, Two Worlds

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• An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. All the evidence shows that people who do not drive, do not fly on planes, do shop locally, do grow their own food, and do get to know other members of their community have a much higher quality of life than their compatriots who still persist in making the ultimate sacrifice of wasting their lives commuting to work in cars.

  Mark Lynas

  Sacrifice, Views, People

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• We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Lying, Men, Doubt

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• The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

  Kate O'Regan

  Vision, Colonialism, Poverty

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• A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

  Gregory Maguire

  Men, Labels, Able

  "Fictional character: The Wizard". "Wicked", Broadway musical, 2003.

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• What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Tasks

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• And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Purpose, Lilies, Enough

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 12, 2014

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Government

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

  Frederick Buechner

  Wise, Prayer, Honesty

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• Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an African at all. He is quite obviously Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it makes those who persist in seeing him as a great African statesman look rather foolish.

  Auberon Waugh

  Chinese, Looks, Facts

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• If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Fate, People

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)" by Mao Zedong, Ch. 6, 1964.

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• What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

  Robin Sharma

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• Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Assets, Willingness

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• Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Fall, People

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• While we may continue to use the words
  smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
  persist for certain purposes, the monopoly
  of those who believe in a single general
  intelligence has come to an end. Brain
  scientists and geneticists are documenting
  the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

  Howard Gardner

  Smart, Stupid, Believe

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