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A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

You should be persistent in asking questions until you're fully satisfied you understand what's happening.

This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure... Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers.

They showed up on state wildlife management areas. Their use was pretty persistent throughout the season.

They tell me to fix something a little bit and I have to take another year to perfect it. I'm ready to send a packet to a publisher. I researched to see who would use my work. You have to be persistent and keep doing it. You do it for the love of it, not because you make money in it.

Although short-run swings in firms' energy costs might be absorbed in their profit margins, a persistent increase is likely to be fully passed on to the consumer,

There was a view among the Europeans and the Japanese at the G-7 meeting last month that persistent pressure may not be the best approach. That wasn't shared by the U.S.

They probably emphasized that. They were much more persistent at going inside.

As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.

It started raining at 7:00 a.m. and it has been persistent for the whole day, ... We had to suspend play because the course was unplayable. Fairways and greens were flooded.

Consumers could raise spending by digging into savings, there's room. Though it may not be the most important thing right now, the persistent weakness in the labor market will weigh on confidence again.

It's like having a persistent drought. At some point when you have drought conditions you have to institute water rationing, and that's what you potentially face in the military if it goes on long enough. You would get to a stage where you don't have enough people to staff your organizations.

It's been fairly persistent for the last several weeks. It's the big weather-maker. As soon as it weakens, it gets reinforced.

The US financial position is rapidly deteriorating, due mainly to America's persistent and growing trade deficit. US ambitions to run the world, in other words, are heavily mortgaged. Like any debtor who borrows more year after year with no plausible way to reverse the trend, a nation sinking deeper into debt enters into an adverse power relationship with its creditors -- greater and greater dependency.

They were very persistent in saying they were coming out, ... That was the positive part of the communications. He is now in custody. There will be a variety of charges.

I was 36, my contract was coming to an end and a series of persistent minor injuries were stopping me playing as regularly as I wanted to.

I want to see a fairer allocation of road dollars coming to northwest Arkansas from Little Rock. I have every intention of being a loud and persistent voice for northwest Arkansas when dealing with the majority House leadership.

Nothing more manifestly distinguishes the Anglo-Saxon than his intense and persistent energy, and he is developing in the United States an energy which, in eager activity and effectiveness, is peculiarly American. This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

Not too good. I've had this before, and it's persistent for quite a while. Now it's just kind of wait and see.

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education. Be persistent and ornery: this will be good for the lethargic educational establishment and will aid the whole cause of public education.

Against persistent love there is nothing that can be done; it blunts all weapons

The large influx of ducks into the state since the November survey is undoubtedly due to recent severe cold fronts bringing freezing temperatures and snow to northern and mid-latitude areas of the Central and Mississippi Flyway. Combined with persistent drought to the north, conditions were favorable for waterfowl migration into Louisiana.

Their running game can be tough to stop. So far they haven't been humming like it normally is, and you just have to keep them in that mode. They're very patient and persistent and keep doing it.

The continuing sinusitis is the reason for the persistent cough in my patient population. You can get a pattern of coughing that is similar to bronchitis that is a result of the low-grade sinusitis.

Closing the achievement gap is one of the most persistent challenges in American education today. Given the complex nature and extreme difficulty in closing these gaps, Standard & Poor's believes it is important to pay tribute to those school districts that have made progress in this area.

High-tech issues are surrounded by persistent fears over possible profit warnings as we get closer to the mid-year book closing in September.

Checking on your loved ones is just as important. If we weren't persistent in doing that, he would not be here.

He's an older guy who's played a lot of hockey in a lot of different leagues and for him to persevere and to be persistent with his career and strive to get to the NHL I think is a compliment to his character. He's certainly taken advantage of an opportunity and he has been a key ingredient in us having some success in the last few weeks.

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting - if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.

I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.

Gorham made us work hard. We worked hard for the three goals that we got. The girls were persistent and stuck with it.

Gorham made us work hard, ... We worked hard for the three goals that we got. The girls were persistent and stuck with it.

It takes someone pretty persistent to stick it out with me.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

Be persistent in good actions.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

The manufacturing sector remains threatened by the persistent strength of the rand, although it should pick up from what looks to be a recovery in global manufacturing.

The underreporting of this disease is monumental. Physicians don't even consider it when they treat adults for persistent cough.

The cause of the persistent warmth has been an unusually active jet stream off of the Pacific Ocean. A west-to-east storm track brought mild air across the country, resulting in above normal temperatures for mostly every state.

The fixed-income franchise continued to show extremely strong results at a time when most other major sectors in the industry were experiencing persistent weakness, ... The steps taken during fiscal 2001 to reduce operating costs and increase margins have had a positive effect on the current period's earnings.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

You've got to be patient with it, persistent with it and you can't fall behind. And we've fallen behind and it makes it tougher to do those things. And especially when you're not getting much out of the running game, it's hard to keep making those calls.

The GDP figures were a downer, and persistent foreign selling is also making people wary of taking long positions.

The forecast annual growth rate over the next 10 years of just over 1 percent reflects the chronic underinvestment that plagues the Russian oil sector because of persistent regulatory uncertainties and growing state interference,

The central risk to social cohesion is persistent and high unemployment. The speech was littered with a variety of fresh initiatives that heighten the probability of increasingly robust job creation.

The central bank is trying to combat persistent inflationary pressures. This is a signal to the market that interest rates have bottomed out and we should expect more increases.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

And, as in previous years, the rates for black and Puerto Rican infants were higher than other groups, ... We are working closely with medical and community partners to reduce persistent disparities.

The latest allegations only compound existing deficiencies at the quality assurance program as identified last year by the General Accountability Office and outlined in its April 2004 report, 'Yucca Mountain: Persistent Quality Assurance Problems Could Delay Repository Licensing and Operation,'

Everything that happens-good and bad-should motivate you to be persistent.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

If you are persistent, you will succeed

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

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

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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

Persistent work triumphs.