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  • COOPER: Well, throughout the hour the president expressing the term patience.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2009 2009

  • I say Adams' because waiting for the shadow to fall perfectly diagonally on the left wall is what you call patience.

    Spirit West The Year in Pictures 2009

  • DE HOOP SCHEFFER: The international community should, I think, better know the meaning of the word patience.

    CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2008 2008

  • These all belong to the more passive side of char acter and are included, or may be, in the general and comprehensive term patience.

    Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876

  • But it will cost about $7 million to finish the entire project -- meaning many neighborhoods (and parts of neighborhoods) will have to practice long-term patience.

    The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories 2010

  • One of the most valuable tools you can have in your writer’s kit is a vast amount of long-term patience.

    Author! Author! » 2005 » November 2005

  • One of the most valuable tools you can have in your writer’s kit is a vast amount of long-term patience.

    Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Control issues 2005

  • Trying to access individual posts is an exercise in patience.

    March 2007 2007

  • Trying to access individual posts is an exercise in patience.

    Blogus Interruptus 2007

  • Making this pear pecan cake today was a lesson in patience.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

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