The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.
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I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.
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I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
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Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.
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There's that word again (harvest)! We persist in using the euphemism wherever the slaughtering of attractive animals is being talked about. Dammit, we kill them. We slaughter them, just like we slaughter cattle. We catch them in steel traps or blow them down with shotguns. We rip off their hides and wear their furs or hang their heads on den walls. We KILL THEM, we don't harvest them!! Someday we'll all grow up and face that reality.
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In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
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It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it
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We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.
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You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
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Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.
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Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
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Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.
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Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true?
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No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
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Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
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