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Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they are very vulnerable, but I see it in the fact that the economic institutional order of the world is associated with this very persistent poverty and that different institutional arrangements at the supranational level could stop and even reverse the slide towards ever-greater income disparities.”

“This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.”

Difficult Independent Persistent Difficult Things

Author:John Lydon

“I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a way of life. I believe this persistent feeling comes from childhood traumas that stripped away my power. The effect, though, the resulting persistent desire to stretch out of confinement even when confinement is inevitable, is a gift.”

Thinking Trying Believe Feelings Desire I Believe Childhood Trauma Inevitable Persistent

Author:Dawn Lundy Martin

“For the last 60 years, dictator Fidel Castro was America's most persistent adversary. Although Castro formally handed off to his brother, Raul, eight years ago, the communist leader was a symbolic force in Cuba and around the world.”

World Leader Brother Communist Dictator Persistent Adversaries Castro

Author:John S. Dickerson

“I think people are complacent. But complacency is like any other metric. It's easy to measure where it is, but it's hard to tell how persistent it is. What causes really big bear markets is not just when people are overly complacent - it's when that complacency is sticky. As long as the skepticism can refresh itself, I think that the markets are still quite viable.”

People Thinking Long Easy Skepticism Persistent Complacency Complacent

Author:John Manley

“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.”

Men Sometimes Support Office Men And Women Focused Lawyer Glad Firm Mentor Persistent Flattered Follow Through

Author:Michelle Obama

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”

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Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening in our time. Persistent economic stagnation together with neoliberal austerity has at this point seriously undermined the stability of the liberal-democratic state and thus the political command sector of the capitalist system. This has led to a dangerous resurgence of political movements in the fascist genus, representing an alternative way of managing the state of the capitalist system, opposed to liberal democracy.”

Together Political Democracy Economic Dangerous Capitalism Crisis Stability Capitalist Persistent Stagnation

Author:John Bellamy Foster

“You could easily play the guy as straight-up hood throughout the whole movie, the Imperial Courts, but writer and director Malik Vitthal envisioned a human being that has never been seen before in film: a black man in circumstances that he does not like, who is passionate - persistent - in turning it around.”

Men Film Guy Black Circumstances Passionate Persistent Hood

Author:John Boyega

“You just have to be persistent. I think that's one of the biggest things about the model industry and this career is being persistent and believing in yourself and also being ready when the timing is right. So much of it is about timing and luck, so to be ready when you get the opportunity.”

Thinking Believe Opportunity Luck Believe In Yourself Timing Persistent

Author:Tricia Helfer

“Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be persistent. That's very important. There's nothing instant about it. It's a way of life, actually, where you choose to spend your life doing this activity called making art.”

Art Important Artist Interesting Instant You Choose Persistent Being An Artist

Author:Michael C. McMillen

“There's always negatives no matter what you're in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.”

Negative Persistent

Author:Louis Lombardi

“The characteristics that I look for when I'm looking for really good entrepreneurs to lead companies are you have to have an inquiring mind, you have to say there must be a better way to do things, and now with technology at a point where everything is possible, how do we turn the possible into the probable? And it all starts with a passion to do something really well, to solve a problem in a way that's never been solved before, and to have just an incredible work ethic, to be persistent.”

Mind Problem Passion Technology Ethics Entrepreneur Incredibles Work Ethic Persistent

Author:John Sculley

“I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.”

Believe Film Hate I Believe Fearless Persistent

Author:Jerry Weintraub

“What keeps my flame burning is, first, I'm ornery and persistent. I don't like giving up on things and I believe in my band and I just happen to have the sort of personality that really likes to see things to the bitter end. The second reason is the incredible people I've been fortunate to meet as a result of pursuing this insane, money-hemorrhaging enterprise. Literally every time I release a well-reviewed, poor-selling record, the net result is that I end up meeting more kind, like-minded, creative and brilliant people. That's really all the reward I need.”

People Giving Believe Kind Reason I Believe Creative Personality Giving Up Meetings Incredibles Brilliant Insane Bitter Enterprise Persistent

Author:Eddie Pepitone

“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”

“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”

Whole Spiritual Spirituality Flower Intuition Features Smallest Persistent

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”

Inspirational Motivational Success Effort Teacher Honest Circumstances Achievement Determination Adversity Endeavor Persistent Do The Best Overcoming Adversity Often Is

Book:The Optimistic Life

Source: The Optimistic Life

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”

“Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”

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Author:Earl Nightingale

“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.”

Life Inspirational Wells Life Is Steps Harmony Simplicity Inner Peace Well Being Persistent Simplification Being Sad

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.”

Needs Hours Prayer Simple Source Comfort Trials Persistent Boon Gethsemane

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

“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.”

“The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.”

Matter Government Belief Aids Liberalism Better Off Coming Back Persistent Government Aid

Author:Paul Ryan

“And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.”

People Sometimes America Realizing Poverty Percent Persistent County Rural America

Author:Tom Vilsack

“I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Enough Dream Happens Ability Economy Sky Hard Work Limits American Dream Persistent Anything Can Happen Sky Is The Limit

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.”

Art Force Building Despite Enterprise Heroic Architect Sheer Persistent Loner Cooperatives Edifice Force Of Will

Author:Martin Filler

“One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.”

Has Beens Made Dream Modern Movement Building Structure Architecture Site Persistent Elusive

Author:Martin Filler

“Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.”

Belief Given Social Can Do Pay Technology Features Technological Norm Persistent

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

Facts Lying Enjoy Opinion Enemy Subjects Comfort Truth Is Myth Interpretation Deliberate Persistent Discomfort Cliche Persuasive Hold Fast

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.”

Men Book Creation Objects Ambition Illusion Errors Persistent Fidelity Indignation Inanimate Objects

Author:Joseph Conrad

“My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.”

Mind Looks Has Beens Body Next Lines Memories Loss Worry Comedy Focus Judging Mouths Performing Enjoyment Gestures Persistent Observing Delivering Analyzing

Book:Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.”

Thinking Too Much Subjects Bed Disorder Persistent Hallucinations

Author:Flann O'Brien

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”

“It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”

Study Achieve Willing Masters Persistent

Book:The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

“There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.”

Fear Happenings Persistent Refusal Fear Nothing Finding Out The Truth

Author:Dorothy Thompson

“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”

Happens Race Optimistic Persistent Comforting Hallucinations

Author:John Wyndham

“Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.”

Ifs World Mind Heart States Chance Knowing Evidence Independent Despite Optimistic Hopeful State Of Mind Persistent Keep The Faith Being Optimistic

Author:William Sloane Coffin

“Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart!”

Heart Quality Grateful Constant Improvement Commit Persistent Grateful Heart Constant Improvement

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.”

Stills Whole Brain Economy Right Now Looking Good Persistent Chicks Coma Brain Dead

Book:Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

Source: Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

“If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

People Ifs Believe Circumstances Separation Persistent Powerlessness Wrong Time

Book:The Secret

Source: The Secret

“There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.”

People Thinking States Enough United United States Thousand Ten Towns Small Town Persistent

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.”

Memories Persistent Distressing

Book:The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House

Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House

“Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.”

Men War Conquer Empires Submit Scotland Persistent Gave Up Free Man Conducting Guerrillas

Book:The Folklore of Discworld

Source: The Folklore of Discworld

“Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.”

People Ifs Kind Said Results Practice Kindness Five Honest Honesty Gains Generosity Persistence Generous Rely Persistent Courtesy Courteous Honest People Disrespected

Author:Confucius

“Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.”

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