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• All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

  Robert Adams

  Land, Grace, Matter

  Robert Adams, University of Missouri--St. Louis. Gallery 210 (1976*). “Aspects of American photography, 1976: April 1-April 30, 1976, Gallery 210”

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• Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Tasks, Enthusiasm

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• One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

  Frank Rich

  News, Century, Tics

  "What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2009.

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• The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

  Elaine Pagels

  Religious, Jesus, Betrayal

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• But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

  William Ralph Inge

  Powerful, Men, Average

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

  Garry Wills

  Loneliness, Artist, Creating

  Garry Wills (1979). “Confessions of a conservative”, Doubleday Books

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• The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

  Frank Herbert

  Errors, Principles, Accidents

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• The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.

  Roger von Oech

  Wall, People, Goal

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

  Judith Guest

  People, Expectations, Needs

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• Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

  Wes Fesler

  Flames, Deceit, Heat

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• Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is gained, and very much is lost, by persistent niggardliness in this direction.

  Charles Lapworth

  Time, Science, Reckless

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• Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Giving Up, Persistence, Men

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• Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

  Theodore Martin

  Art, Work, Believe

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• At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Evil, Nazism

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• I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.

  Lana Del Rey

  Regret, Writing, Ambition

  "Lana Del Rey has a problem with our interview ... but why?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2014.

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• Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.

  Emmet Fox

  Keys, Overcoming, Golden

  Emmet Fox “The Golden Key to Prayer”, DMC

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• The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated... It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

  William O. Douglas

  Average, Together, Our Society

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Brother, Fate

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• Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

  Delano Johnson

  Joy, Weak, Fulfillment

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• The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Way

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• We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

  Michael Jackson

  Matter, Fields, Should

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• Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rising Up, Evil, Agitation

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.53, Beacon Press

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• Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

  Yatin Patel

  Perseverance, Perception, Promise

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• Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stress, Men, Temptation

  Walter Lippmann (1959). “The Public Philosophy”

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• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Pain, Optimism

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 12 (1925)

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