Quotes with persists

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  • Robert Collier All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes and is ready to receive it.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Merton In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Sigmund Freud No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • William Blake The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Cass Sunstein When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
    Source: Ambassador of Conscience Award Acceptance Speech, 1-11-2006
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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