Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating.
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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.
quote by Juliene Berk
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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.
quote by Juliene Berk
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Until That Day
War visits
too many places
traces blood markings
upon too many generations
War arrives
as old men decide
just where and when
to send young men to die
War leaves
too many faces
wearing traces of scars
which worm their way inward
then persist to endure as long as men live
because old men required young men should give
greater share than their bodies and minds had to spare
War will persist
as long as old men insist
So will war visit, again and again
Till the day young men decide it must end
and turn their guns instead - on those old men
poem by Mary Havran
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I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)
Under the intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes
I have felt the full knowledge
And force of their expression
And yet been unable to possess it
And have felt it leave me
As so many other things have left
The letter half-read
The bottle half-drunk
Finding
Finding in the commonest objects of the universe
A circle of analogies
Of metaphors
Ooohhh
For that expression
Which has been willfully
withheld from me
The access to the inner soul denied
I wanna know, ooohhh
I wanna know
I wanna know, oh
I wanna know
In consideration
In consideration of the faculties and impulses
Of the human soul
Of the human soul
In consideration
Of our arrogance
Of our arrogance
Our radical, primitive irreducible arrogance of reason
We have all overlooked the propensity
We saw no need for it
The paradoxical something which we may call perverseness
Perverseness
Through its promptings we act without
Comprehensible object
We act for the reason we should not
We act for the reason we should not
For certain minds this is absolutely irre-, irre-
irresistible
irresistible
The conviction of the wrong
Or impolicy of an action
Is often the unconquerable force
The unconquerable force
It is a primitive impulse
It is a primitive impulse
Primitive impulse
The overwhelming tendency
The overwhelming tendency to do
Wrong for the wrong's sake
To do wrong for the wrong's sake
We persist in acts
Because we feel that we
should not persist in them
Because we feel we, feel we
should not persist, per-, persist in them, ah
Ooohhh
So I wanna kn
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I persist in performing.
quote by David Tudor
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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
quote by Tobias Wolff
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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
quote by Thomas Hobbes
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
quote by Vannevar Bush
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
quote by William Blake
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
quote by Isaiah Berlin
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
quote by Lord Chesterfield
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Quatrain #484 - There is no such thing as.......
There is no such thing as nothing
because nothing doesn’t really exist,
and all those who think of nothing
in ignorance they may then persist.
poem by George Krokos
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
quote by Frank Moore Colby
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To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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In my best friend's memory
Imagine, you alone know I exist
And I'm not sure you care enough
To pause and to imagine even this
My life-line, bonded in fragility
Together with the palpitating heart
Of worlds in which the living still persist
My dedicated number, postal box
E-mail address and names that keep
My last connections to the hosts remote
With no back-up, residual site
Except hard copy paper notes
You stuffed into the pocket of a winter coat
Imagine, I am known only by you
In this world, real and virtual alike
And I am weighed within your hands if not
Condemned already to your attic drawer
The tissues of a heart you left behind
A tiny scene in stories you forgot
However you erase or try to crush
The memories I scattered in this world
I will persist in calling you to find
These stubborn thoughts of me that will not die
That make my claim and furnish proof that I
Exist, or once existed in your mind.
poem by Frank Bana
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
quote by Carl Sagan
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
quote by Vinton Cerf
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
quote by Carl Sagan
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