Those conditions came happily together in Chagall's wonder years of 1911-17: new idioms in art, the persistence of Hasidic life in the shtetl, and an artist who found distance enough to reconfigure that life in the universal medium of paint.

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It provides the characters and visual poetry on which to project our deepest feelings about the persistence of love, the power of friendship and the joy of embracing life toward the end of life.

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Tchen candidly touched on a handful of personal life lessons to encourage patience and persistence when faced with the challenges of change.

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The way in which Frank recovered from the crash--maintaining his system of picking out-of-favor, undervalued stocks and riding them back up--impressed his young assistant and taught him a lot about the value of patience and persistence--in investing and in life.

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Steve changed the way we see the world today through his relentless drive, passion, persistence, and the force of his will, and it is through these qualities that we draw inspiration from his life.

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