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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man
Mistakes
Idiot
Only
Make
His
Error
Persists
Any
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
Harry Belafonte
Struggle
Racism
Poison
Crippling
Abolish
Although
Still
Been
Persists
May
Slavery
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
You
Yourself
Argument
More
Gives
Simply
Fair
His
Hearing
Intelligent
Than
Persists
Against
Then
Your
Who
Lunacy
Lunatic
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man
Fool
Liable
Only
Err
Error
Persists
Any
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
Life
Responsibility
Somebody
Shifting
Own
Living
Analysis
Else
Out
Responsible
Find
Finding
Individual
Individual Person
He
Fails
Himself
His
Existence
Persists
Person
Meaning
Meaning Of
Last
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
Best
Theatre
Live
Paper
Something
More
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
Government
Democracy
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
Government
Terrorism
Benefits
Fear
Long
National
Accountability
State
Secrecy
Unlimited
Corporations
Claim
High
Security
Cash
Massive
Powers
Obvious
Operate
Private
Government Officials
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
History
Marriage
Progress
Law
Pride
Sex
Big
Ourselves
Segregation
Come
How
How Far
Wage
Discrimination
Persists
American
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
Banned
Explicit
Land
Far
Racial
Gap
Amidst
The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
Charles Duhigg
Win
Opportunity
Other
Everyone
System
Out
Only
He
NASCAR
Persists
Any
Turns
Cooperation
Believes
The need for strong partners and employees persists throughout the life of a company, but it is especially important in the beginning.
Clara Shih
Life
Strong
Employees
Important
Beginning
Throughout
Partners
Persists
In The Beginning
Company
Need
If I fail to remove Marcos and vindicate the people's verdict by peaceful, nonviolent action, my methods will be discredited. And if anger persists, I will be marginalized, and others will take over leadership of the movement.
Corazon Aquino
Leadership
Anger
People
Will
Remove
Action
Others
Take
Fail
Over
Verdict
Nonviolent
Methods
Persists
Movement
Peaceful
Vindicate
Marginalized
Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists.
David Fahrenthold
Knowledge
Financial
Aid
Financial Aid
Administrators
Students
Educate
Persists
Office
Disparity
Loans
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
Eudora Welty
Me
Respect
Writing
Sense
Unknown
Find
Abide
Threads
Follow
Lifetime
Developed
Clear
Look
How
Tangle
Line
Persists
Human
Where
Fiction
Connect
Thick
Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.
Gavin Newsom
Party
Beginning
Trump
End
Persists
Donald
Rhetoric
Republican
Republican Party
Successful
Even
There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.
Greg Graffin
Success
Creative
Power
Young
Too
Fluke
Way
Ways
Characterize
Criterion
Evolutionary
Tell
Staying
Staying Power
Still
Were
Years
Infants
Persists
Any
Just
Many
Species
Millions
Number
Millions Of Years
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
Italo Calvino
Work
Noise
Background
Classic
Totally
Persists
Holds
Which
Sway
Even
Incompatible
Present
We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound.
Pete Buttigieg
Health
Home
Democracy
Ownership
Compound
Economic
Invest
Entrepreneurship
Empowerment
Because
Inequalities
Inequality
Access
Surprised
Persists
Intentionally
Racial
Home Ownership
Things
Need
What we resist persists.
Sonia Johnson
Persists
Resist
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell
Memory
Possible
Previous
Individual
Genetic
Also
Exists
Persists
Racial
Lives
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