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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." »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." »Juliene Berk
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"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." »Tobias Wolff
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"To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly." »Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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"Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur." »Deane Jordan
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"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." »Hannah Whitall Smith
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"I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." »Unknown
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"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking." »Og Mandino
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"You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." »Isaac Asimov
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." »F Scott
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"In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples." »Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly
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