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• In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

  Sebastian Junger

  Self, Risk, Way

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• Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

  Eudora Welty

  Respect, Writing, Abiding

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Attachment, Order

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 29, 2012

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• The tighter you try and hold on to something that you are afraid of losing, the more you are pushing it away.Those thoughts are filled with fear, and if you continue to persist, what you fear the most will come upon you.
  Fear nothing - just think about what you want. It feels so much better!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity

  Pope Francis

  People, Justice, World

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• You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Innovation, Trying

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• Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

  Albert Einstein

  Character, Greatness, Difficult Questions

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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

  Tacitus

  Courage, Fear, Bravery

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• The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

  Fred Green

  World, Misery, Unnecessary

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• Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Choices, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

  Richard L. Evans

  Procrastination, Years, Long

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• When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

  Minor White

  Mirrors, Self, Fool

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• There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. If Saddam persists in thumbing his nose at the inspectors, then we're clearly going to have to do something about it.

  Howard Dean

  Iraq, Allies, United States

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2002.

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• We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fairness And Equality, Justice, Inequality

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• I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

  Fred Rogers

  Teacher, Memories, Feelings

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• What we resist persists.

  Sonia Johnson

  Persistence

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead.
  We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it

  Brian Tracy

  Keys, Goal, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 27, 2013

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• What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Mind, Looks, Disappear

  Neale Donald Walsch (2007). “Path To Happiness & Prosperity”, p.69, Jaico Publishing House

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• Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Talking, People

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

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• Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

  James Altucher

  Persistence, Sides, Side Effects

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• What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.

  Stephanie Mills

  War, Civilization, Long

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• At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

  Walter Kirn

  Persistence, Quality, Sound

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• Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.

  George Soros

  Running, Trends, Courses

  George Soros (2003). “The Alchemy of Finance”, p.80, John Wiley & Sons

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• A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

  H. L. Mencken

  Race, Political, Drug

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.423, Knopf

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