#insist

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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.


Barbara Ehrenreich


#amoral #ancient #both #earth #fairly

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.


Arthur Erickson


#cultures #incapacity #insistence #measuring #other

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.


Albert Finney


#changes #elaboration #give #insists #more

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.


John T. Flynn


#economic #former #insist #our #political

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#attention #began #book #father #i

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


#achievement #children #fail #highly #insist

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.


Michael E. Mann


#bring #cancer #cause #classic #discovered

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.


Laura Riding


#constant #create #end #even #give

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.


Edith Schaeffer


#cannot #could #find #insisting #looking

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.


Francis Schaeffer


#age #allowed #curious #insistence #mark