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• All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it

  James Russell Lowell

  Race, Government, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• You're not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don't love what you're doing. If it's not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.

  Robert Greene

  Enough, Appeals, Persistent

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• People with passion are incredibly inventive and tenacious individuals. They go way beyond the call of duty and frequently either work on their passion without pay or give more of themselves than their pay warrants. And I do not equate passion with workaholism, in which people say they love their work so much they do it all the time. Workaholics are working to fill a vacuum, or to escape, not to connect with their souls.

  Janet Hagberg

  Passion, People, Giving

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• Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Stage

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• Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

  Tony Robbins

  Past, Imagination, Vision

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 13, 2014

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• Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Men, Political Opinions

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Religious, Passion, Yankees

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• Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are.

  Robert L. Bartley

  Clever, Groups, Minorities

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• A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

  Edward Gibbon

  Freedom, Balance, Arms

  Edward Gibbon (1787). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.78

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• Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded, as though intuitively aware that there is nothing new under the sun. Throughout the physical world, from the cosmic to the subatomic, the same refrain resounds. Conservation: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

  Natalie Angier

  Nature, Law, Ideas

  Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.

  T. D. Jakes

  Water, Soul, Mind

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• An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Effort, Enough, Enlightened

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• Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to the places of election, to overthrow their tyrants, and to substitute men who would be disposed to avenge the violated majesty of the people?

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Rights, Tyrants

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

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• Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them

  Walter Benjamin

  Self, Order, World

  Walter Benjamin (1977). “The origin of German tragic drama”, New Left Books

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• Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

  Kate Millett

  Powerful, Successful, Weapons

  Sexual Politics ch. 2 (1970)

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• I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could.

  John Haines

  Forever, Desire, Looks

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• They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Men, Legs

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• The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Children, Character, Acceptance

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• The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

  James Howell

  Giving, Teeth, Cracks

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• He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

  Kit Williams

  Later In Life, Calling, Madness

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• You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.

  Stephen King

  Wind, England, Silent

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

  Albert Memmi

  Real, Racism, Wish

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press

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• I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with images which (often) have a documentary interest, but which rarely go further than that. One has to be completely available, very tenacious and admit that many subjects won't give any results... and a miracle sometimes happens, without warning.

  Martine Franck

  Home, Reality, Thinking

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• Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

  Patricia Ireland

  Strong, Powerful, Fighting

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• In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Mean, Past

  "The Structure of Physics". Book by Carl F. von Weizsäcker, p. 288, 2007.

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