For example, you persist in arguing, despite the lack of evidence, that higher taxes (within reason) will reduce the willingness to work.

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Plus, it will help you persist in the face of obstacles.

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It makes you persist when you encounter obstacles.

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How can such dissonance persist, you ask?

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If you do, it will persist.

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" They'll look at you like you're crazy at first, ' but persist and "the person will either switch topics or stop talking to you.

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However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).

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To persist past these moments you have to feel love for the field, you have to feel passionately excited by the prospect of discovering or inventing something new.

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Resilience in the long-term means you recognize a setback as a short-term condition and are able to persist.

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Travel inland and you find towns where old scores are still unsettled and feuds between rival criminal families persist.

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It's interesting that if I took somebody in the emergency department and gave them a big slug of adrenaline, you'll find that an hour later they're just wiped out, and that'll really persist throughout the day.

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