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I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance.
So we have these anatomical categories that persist, that are in many ways problematic and questionable.
But borders do persist in some parts of cyberspace.
They want their shape to persist.
But the fact that these problems persist and that solutions sometimes create their own problems is not a reason for us to give up or to resign.
Many tropes about Africa persist from pictures, pictures of famine in Ethiopia 30 years ago, pictures of the Biafran war half a century ago.
It confused me; why did these allergy symptoms persist well past the pollen season?
Now, the fashion industry may persist to label me as "plus size", but I like to think of it as 'my size'.
And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering and knowledge is better than ignorance and superstition.
Local humanitarians have the courage to persist, to dust themselves off from the wreckage and to start again, risking their lives to save others.
And the truth is, much of Africa's nature is going to persist into the future in protected areas like I show in blue on the screen.
That sometimes shows up in the first decade of life, but it can be very confusing for parents, because it is quite normative for children to act in a cross-gender play and way, and, in fact, there are studies that show that even 80 percent of children who act in that fashion will not persist in wanting to be the opposite gender at the time when puberty begins.
Are there practices that we engage in where the arguments against them are there for all to see but nonetheless we persist in them?
Why is it that our leaders still persist in looking inwards?
Why do these myths persist?
And usually I would try and persist anyway, because I had already devoted so much time and energy and sometimes money into this field.
It's possible that life might persist in aquifers beneath the surface of Mars.
Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants?
I've spent much of my career working with journalists, with bloggers, with activists, with human rights researchers all around the world, and I've come to the conclusion that if our democratic societies do not double down on protecting and defending human rights, freedom of the press and a free and open internet, radical extremist ideologies are much more likely to persist.
And the question is whether the short run will persist.
Most of the time, countries still persist in behaving as if they were warring, selfish tribes battling against each other, much as they have done since the nation-state was invented hundreds of years ago.
Though misperceptions about ECT persist, accounts like hers have helped make doctors and patients alike aware of the treatment’s life changing potential.
So we're not empty vessels; the mental models that we have as children persist into adulthood.
But by most measures, we have more knowledge and more resources now than at any other point in history, and still injustice abounds and challenges persist.
It shows that dogs have representations of us of our identities that persist when we are not there.
If technologies don't last and persist, we will not succeed.
And we're a very young technology in an old galaxy, and we don't yet know whether it's possible for technologies to persist.
The 1901 fair's legacies persist in more ways than we can imagine.
Vestigial traits can persist when there’s no incentive to lose them— but since there’s also no incentive to keep them, random mutations will sometimes still eliminate them from part of the population.
We persist also in being sidelined by the idea of the expert as the only one capable of coming up with answers, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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