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Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.
The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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.
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
From the first time I harangued my mother into buying me a pair of platform sandals at the irascible and persistent age of 11, I've worn heels.
Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.
To be persistent and to have courage is important to get through difficult times and to achieve what you want to achieve.
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.
In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a line as something more colorful than it was.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.
A lot of the guys worry about their form. For me, it is just about being persistent and patient.
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
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.
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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.
Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.
The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.
Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.
Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5
All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.
True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.
The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent.
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander
Into regions yet untrod
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God.
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.
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.
Six months before the end of my mission, I was dogged by the press to give an answer about turning pro. They were extremely persistent.
Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .
The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.
My best quality is that I am persistent. My worst is that I am no fun.
Our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and regular basis, whether it's election season or not.
How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.
A short telomere represents a persistent and non-repairable damage to the cells, which is able to prevent their division or regeneration.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
We are seeing robotics creep into all areas and become accessible, where it used to be something tedious that only the most persistent people could access.
Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.
We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time.
I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.
Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable!
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.
Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.
When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but I want to do everything.
