“ The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
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“ 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? ”
- Vicesimus Knox- Copy
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“ There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. ”
- Charles de Montesquieu- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Smith: i hate paying my tax bill. brown: you should pay up with a smile. smith: i've offered them a smile, but they insist on money. ”
- Bob Phillips- Copy
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“ How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.7K
“ After that we need a government with all parties, with Allawi, and our brother Sunnis. We insist all Iraqis have a role. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ”
- Erwin Rommel- Copy
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“ People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 361
“ You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. ”
- Lawrence G. Lovasik- Copy
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“ The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. Not so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ If a woman insists on being called Ms, ask her if it stands for miserable. ”
- Russell Bell- Copy
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“ Lesbians make themselves into a more frail political community by insisting on the radical irreducibility of their desire. I don't think any of us have irreducibly distinct desires. ”
- Judith Butler- Copy
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“ In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. ”
- Edward de Bono- Copy
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“ In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. ”
- Steve Allen- Copy
- 2K
“ It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. ”
- Henri Frederic Amiel- Copy
- 319
“ Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. ”
- Heywood Broun- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. ”
- Henri Frederic Amiel- Copy
- 2.7K
“ If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ”
- Herodotus- Copy
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