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• Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Spiritual, Needs, Cost

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• Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

  Witold Rybczynski

  Eye, Television Watching, Ears

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• Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

  John Drinkwater

  Drama, Epic, Long

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• When I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing. Sometimes mentors don't find you - sometimes you seek them out. You shouldn't hesitate to plop herself in someone's office and ask them to be that support.... Oftentimes, they're flattered and glad to lend a hand. So I would encourage any reader to seek out a mentor, then follow through and be very focused and persistent.

  Michelle Obama

  Men, Office, Support

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them.

  Carl Rogers

  Upset, Feelings, May

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Beautiful, Men, Illumination

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• There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.

  William Borah

  Passion, Sleep, Fire

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• The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

  Sigmund Freud

  Voice, Voice Of Reason, Reason

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• The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

  James Altucher

  Moving, Adventure, Skills

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• To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Government, Law, Punishment

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• Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Men, Hatred

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.861, Pan Macmillan

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• Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

  John Burns

  Men, Judging, Progress

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• An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

  Kevin Kelly

  Organization, Literature

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• The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.

  McGeorge Bundy

  Country, Blow, Racism

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• Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

  John Owen

  Evil, Temptation, Gains

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• In my beginnings, those nos were ever-present-even today, those nos are ever-present-and it's the workaround. I always found a workaround for people who turned their back to me. It's a way of being persistent that makes them take notice.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Today, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Borders, Reason

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

  Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

  Hard Work, Goal, Want

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• Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

  Lynne Stewart

  Giving Up, People, Clients

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you have a dream, to make it happen, all you have to do is start with one video and take it one video at a time. It may seem a little daunting to go from registering your YouTube channel to making it a full-time career, but if that is an aspiration for you, it's 100% doable if you're authentic, if you're persistent, if you put your best foot forward, if you come at it with realistic and authentic aspirations and intentions. If you try, then it's possible.

  Tyler Oakley

  Dream, Careers, Feet

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company earns good returns on capital at that level of normal earnings. A holding period of more than one year also works quite well as the factors are persistent in years 2 and 3.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Years, Goal, Earning

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• Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.

  Eugene Linden

  Lying, Self, Years

  Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.231, Penguin

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• There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers.  It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say

  Ervin Seale

  Hurt, Careers, People

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• Through persistent, effective, and diligent work, a person can accumulate knowledge in the form of facts, data, information, and experience. Intelligence, however, can only be gained through obedience. Thus, knowledge is a prerequisite to and foundation for true spiritual intelligence.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Data, Foundation

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• There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Real, Thinking, Light

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