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• We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments when our minds ask: 'What next?' In these chinks of time, ask Him: 'Lord, think Thy thoughts in my mind. What is on Thy mind for me to do now?' When we ask Christ, 'What next?' we tune in and give Him a chance to pour His ideas through our enkindled imagination. If we persist, it becomes a habit.

  Frank Laubach

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Oil And Water, Mad, Poetry

  Edgar Allan Poe (1876). “Poems and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Memoir”, p.162

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• The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Disappointment, Order, Play

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.

  Barry Commoner

  Play, Ddt, Environmental

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• Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

  Gary Panter

  Art, Trying, Relax

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.

  Kiki Dimoula

  Passion, Giving, Love Grows

  Source: blog.yupnet.org

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• Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ties, Religion, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• The black unemployment rate has to be twice that of the white rate in the US. If the national unemployment rate were 6.8 percent, everyone would be freaking out. We ought to not take too much solace in the 6.8 percent, but ask ourselves what can we do to bring that down to white rates, which are below 4 percent now. Some of that has to do with education, but that's just part of the story. You find that those unemployment differentials persist across every education level. I think it means pushing back on discrimination and helping people who can't find work get into the job market.

  Jared Bernstein

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

  Edward Abbey

  People, Territory, Facts

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Facts, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Senses

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

  Paul Goodman

  Successful, Community, Adequate

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.195, New York Review of Books

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• Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

  Liz W. Garcia

  Real, Directors, Males

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• I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.

  Simon Sinek

  Doe, Investing, Pay

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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• ​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

  John Legend

  Thinking, People, Want

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 14, 2015.

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• Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

  Brian Tracy

  Giving Up, Goal, Guarantees

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• Thoughts may come and persist in staying. But thoughts that are not put into word or action die unborn!

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  May, Action, Unborn

  Kenneth E. Hagin (1979). “What to Do When Faith Seems Weak and Victory Lost”, Kenneth Hagin Ministries

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• The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.

  Al Gore

  Running, Years, Usa

  "'I Am Optimistic'". Interview with Philip Bethge, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 02, 2009.

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• Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Violation Of Human Rights, Issues, Effort

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• Until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away-that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project-you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.

  Grant Cardone

  Support You, Going Away, Needs

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Nov 28, 2016

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• It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a look at all the peoples in the world, we have to realize that the condition of women is very backward and sometimes very sad, from both the social and psychological points of view.

  Dacia Maraini

  Views, Law, Age

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• Great strategy, not executed, can't possibly have any effect on performance because it doesn't actually affect anything. It's like planning for a successful surgery to remove a tumor. If no one picks up the knife and actually operates effectively, the diseases will persist.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Successful, Planning, Strategy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Law, Trying

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.190, Vintage

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