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• Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Ideas, People, Intellectual

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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• It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.

  Joan Larkin

  Long, Vision, Process

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.

  Caroline Knapp

  Sex, Garden, Giving

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• You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They're not going to buy it unless they know about it.

  Herb Kelleher

  Crazy, Ideas, People

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• Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Nature, Ecology

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• True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stories, Matter, Fresh Start

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• I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Memories, Blood, Years

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• One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

  Tom Robbins

  Violence, Rage, Craziness

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.225, Bantam

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• Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like they have been other-than-comf ortable most of the time. You can thank the muscle magazines for these persistent misconceptions, along with the natural tendency of all normal humans to seek reasons to avoid hard physical exertion.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Mean, People, Looks

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• The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

  George Meany

  Rights, Threat

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• Many children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Stress, Home

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• Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

  George Gissing

  Events, Way, Calamity

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.90, The Floating Press

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• Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

  Bill Drayton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

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• What keeps my flame burning is, first, I'm ornery and persistent. I don't like giving up on things and I believe in my band and I just happen to have the sort of personality that really likes to see things to the bitter end. The second reason is the incredible people I've been fortunate to meet as a result of pursuing this insane, money-hemorrhaging enterprise. Literally every time I release a well-reviewed, poor-selling record, the net result is that I end up meeting more kind, like-minded, creative and brilliant people. That's really all the reward I need.

  Eddie Pepitone

  Giving Up, Believe, People

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• But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Essence, Smell

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.50, Vintage

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• It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

  Paulo Coelho

  Study, Achieve, Masters

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Fear, Refusal, Finding Out The Truth

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• I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Dream, Hard Work, Thinking

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• The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Risk, Want

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.91, Penguin

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• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Garden

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• Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

  Naveen Jain

  Successful, Voice, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Oct 28, 2016

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• The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

  Samuel Smiles

  Dream, Successful, Spirit

  "Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct".

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• My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.

  Steve Martin

  Memories, Loss, Worry

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.

  Edgar Cayce

  People, Effort, Obstacles

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