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Letter "P" » persistent
«There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.»
«Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.»
Author: Edward Eggleston
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persistent
«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.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
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Country
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bold, common mistake, experimentation, frankly, persistent
«The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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«These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent applicants for office, whose highest ambition is to feed at the Government's crib»
«The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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between, distinction, future, futures, illusion, past, persistent, present, Present and the Past, stubbornly
«Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Reality
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All in one, although, for each one, illusion, merely, one, one after another, One and one, One on One, one to one, persistent, reality, The One and Only, very
«Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.»
«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»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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alternate, alternating, heights, infatuation, Infatuations, pauses, persistent, rave, raved, raves, raving
«There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred»
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