#insists

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

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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

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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

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President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works. ↗

— Fred Barnes

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Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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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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