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With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon. ↗

— John Bright

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I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually. ↗

— Helen Garner

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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

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In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation. ↗

— Michael Lewis

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If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. ↗

— Richard Rosen

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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. ↗

— Russell Baker

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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

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