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«Cigarettes dull the faculties, stunt and retard the physical development, unsettle the mind, and rob the persistent user of will power and the ability to concentrate»
Author: Dick Merriewell
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cigarettes, concentrate, faculties, persistent, physical ability, retard, retarding, rob, stunt, stunted, stunting, unsettle, unsettled, unsettles, unsettling, user
«One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.»
«Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
persistent, question, urgent
«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.»
Author: Roy Wilkins
(Statesman)
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aid, educational, establishment, in-fighting, lethargic, ornery, overlooked, persistent, public education
«Against persistent love there is nothing that can be done; it blunts all weapons»
«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.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Action,
Thinking,
Truth
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disinterested, enslave, extraordinarily, inconvenienced, liking, lively, persistent, troubled
«Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.»
Author: M. Scott Peck
(Author, psychiatrist)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
enlightenment, nirvana, persistent
«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.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
achievement, circumstances, endeavor, persistent, reputed
«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.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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ahead, a little, between, departed, distinction, future, illusion, less than nothing, little, means, now, past, People Like Us, persistent, physic, physics, present, Present and the Past, strange, stubbornly, that means nothing
«Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
Know how, persistent, urgent
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