#insist

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ↗

— Confucius

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Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

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Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house. ↗

— Vin Diesel

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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