#persists

What we resist persists. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#resist

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. ↗

— William Blake

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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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

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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

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