![[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.](/assets/img/quote-photos/robinson-crusoe-is-the-true-prototype-of-the-british-colonist-the-whole-anglo-.jpg)
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persistence past men
At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along. Maurice Maeterlinck
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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. William Shakespeare
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One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness. Benoit Mandelbrot
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Persistence is the most traveled path to success. Bryant H. McGill
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Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result. Catherine Ponder
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Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
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Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success Austin Phelps
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Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself. Brian Tracy
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Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed
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The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence. Carrie Chapman Catt
independence
The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself. Marsha Blackburn
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We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. Richard Perle
independence money
For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest. Monica Seles
independence needs existential
Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear E. F. Schumacher
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Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom!/ Throughout the day/ no time for memorandums now./ Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever. Davy Crockett
independence honor infamous
It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence. Edward Gibbon
independence needs
I do need my independence. I have to have that. Carol Vorderman
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I'm for economic independence. Charles Evers
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Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love Frank Moore
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I think it's apathy that's been fueled by the feeling like you have the inability to change anything in your life.
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Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better. Charles Spurgeon
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I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much. Kurt Vonnegut
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Whether through apathy or confusion, the failure to claim these credits is just one way we're needlessly gifting vast sums to the taxman each year.
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Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it. Alafair Burke
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When the people of a nation out of sincere ignorance, conscientious stupidity, and/or apathy cheer and support liars and murderers like Bush and Blair they are breeding contempt for the laws of the land. These people will find themselves, sooner rather than later, surrounded by incomprehensible evil wherever they go. They become more like fish in a barrel than people. Bobby Miller
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We are missing something. Our youth today is empty. No longer do the children dream and believe they can change the world. Apathy has destroyed the beautiful idealism of our youth. The intricate illusions and fearless aspirations. The gleam in a child's eye. God help us. All hope is truly lost.
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When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.