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| Luke's Dad | Jul 22 2010, 04:02 PM Post #1 |
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." Calvin Coolidge |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| George K | Jul 22 2010, 04:08 PM Post #2 |
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Pretty loquacious for a guy called "Silent Cal." =-=-=-=-=-= ..a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose." |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 22 2010, 04:19 PM Post #3 |
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MAMIL
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That might depend which bit you press on. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| The 89th Key | Jul 22 2010, 04:27 PM Post #4 |
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LD - thanks for the quote. Hadn't heard that before. And as an educated and talented genius with plenty of persistence and determination, I am very offended.
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| Horace | Jul 22 2010, 06:21 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Elevating "persistence" gives me the heebie jeebies. You could make a case for "hard work" being awesome or something like that but "persistence" makes me think of idiots who can't think straight, taking an idea and running straight ahead with it, using their foreheads to knock holes in any brick walls that might be in their path. Dr Seuss' north-going zax and south-going zax were both persistent. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Axtremus | Jul 23 2010, 03:55 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Looking back at the 2009 and 2010 legislative development, it is obvious that persistence on the part of the Democrats is what pulled comprehensive healthcare reform pass the finish line to become law over the GOP's "party of no" obstructionism. If we keep persisting, sooner or later we will achieve single-payer universal healthcare. So, persistence is good. Don't knock it, people.
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| John D'Oh | Jul 23 2010, 04:23 AM Post #7 |
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I agree. Very, very persistent people are frequently wrong and often obsessed with a single idea which they think is going to change everything. Eventually the only response left to us is: ![]() What's more, it's a good response. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 23 2010, 07:16 AM Post #8 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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"We are told that talent creates opportunity. But I'm here to tell you that intense desire can create not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." - t3h Bruce |
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| Red Rice | Jul 23 2010, 07:59 AM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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"Never give up! Never surrender!" - Commander Peter Quincy Taggert |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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