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  • Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

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  • Charles Horton Cooley The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Adam Schiff At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Bill Ackman I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Martin Luther King Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • M. Scott Peck Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
    M. Scott Peck
    American psychiatrist and author (1936 - 2005)
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  • Albert Einstein Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Edward Eggleston Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
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  • Bobby Scott Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Reality is merely an illusion , albeit a very persistent one.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Eliot Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anthony Burgess The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Albert Einstein The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Koestler The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Peace Pilgrim The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Henry Ward Beecher There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Paul R. Scheele You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing.
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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