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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»
Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
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Advice
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«The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.»
«It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
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Universe
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delusion, grasp, persist, persist in, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, satisfying
«Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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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.»
«Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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affirm, affirming, idealist, persist, persist in, predestined
«That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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honorable, persist, persisted, persisting, persist in, repair, repairing, repairs, repair to
«Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
extenuate, extenuates, heavy, persist, persist in
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