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• When you realize that prosperity is your divine
  heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

  Catherine Ponder

  Heritage, Realizing, Prosperity

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.189, Lulu.com

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• If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Disappear Completely, Practice

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

  Laozi

  Men, Heaven, Taoism

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• A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

  Wallis Simpson

  Marriage, Emotional, Fire

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• most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.

  Sally Helgesen

  Leadership, Believe, Organization

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• A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Age, Why Not

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• Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.

  John Updike

  Writing, People, Personality

  "Remembering John Updike, Literary Legend". www.npr.org. January 28, 2009.

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• I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!

  Andy Andrews

  Believe, Persistence, Keys

  "Andy Andrews: Inspirational Speaker, Best Selling Author and Patriot". Interview with Bonnie Bartel Latino, billco-outdoors.blogspot.com. September 3, 2013.

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• all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Country, Children, Ideas

  Olivia de Havilland (2016). “Every Frenchman Has One”, p.31, Crown Archetype

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• Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.

  Steve Grand

  Clouds, Long, Together

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• There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

  Narayanananda Swami.

  Three, World, Fool

  "Revelation". Book by Narayanananda Swami p. 168 (2001 edition), 1951.

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• Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Believe, Healthy, Brain

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.167, e-artnow

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• Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Fighting

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

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• Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Color, Long

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.53, Vintage

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• I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Appreciation, Art, Long

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.22, Random House

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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
  [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]

  Tacitus

  Bravery, Despair, Fortune

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• Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.

  Daniel Seligman

  Educational, Organization, Aptitude Test

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• I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Believe, Gone Away, Sound

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

  Charles Duhigg

  Believe, Winning, Opportunity

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• We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

  Atul Gawande

  Pain, Medicine, Intuition

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.7, Profile Books

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• Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Thinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it beforewhy do we think we can succeed now?

  Joanna Russ

  Memories, Believe, Thinking

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• Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Death, Determination, Lying

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
  With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Optimism, Here And There, Elements

  Hugh MacDiarmid (2006). “Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Baby, Years, Creative

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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