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What we resist persists.
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Sonia Johnson
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Feb 27
,
1936
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Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
Harry Belafonte
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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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Yourself
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Fair
His
Hearing
Intelligent
Than
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Who
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in 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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Responsible
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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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Theatre
Live
Paper
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Put
Performers
Makes
Than
Author
Persists
Role
Different
Why
Bring
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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Ought
System
Only
Powers
Persists
Whether
Asking
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.
Glenn Greenwald
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Terrorism
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Fear
Long
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Accountability
State
Secrecy
Unlimited
Corporations
Claim
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Security
Cash
Massive
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Obvious
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Up
Surveillance
Persists
National Security
Officials
While
Suck
Many
Homeland
Homeland Security
Keeping
Amount
Levels
When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
Cass Sunstein
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The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
Charles Duhigg
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Opportunity
Other
Everyone
System
Out
Only
He
NASCAR
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Turns
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Believes
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