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• The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Book, Excellence, Speech

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.88, M.E. Sharpe

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• After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

  Roy Barnes

  Government, People, Office

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• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  Naomi Wolf

  Baby, War, Feminist

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• I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

  Walt Disney

  Perfectionist, Staff, Something Better

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• I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.

  Andrew Weil

  Stress, Reality, Thinking

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

  Katharine Weber

  Eye, Mean, People

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown

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• It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.

  Helen Fielding

  Party, Garden, Tree

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

  James Q. Wilson

  Mistake, School, Monopoly

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

  Ana Castillo

  Sin, Without You, Violation

  Ana Castillo (2008). “Loverboys”, p.87, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

  Alice Hoffman

  Love You, Angel, Home

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.11, Penguin Group

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• You don't want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our 'Truth,' and having tax-exempt organizations dedicated to atheism that have influential political action committees. We will also stop printing 'In atheism we trust' on all US currency and saying, 'One nation, under atheism" in the pledge of allegiance. We will also stop insisting that everyone who disagrees with us will be sentence to eternal damnation... Wait...

  David G. McAfee

  Doors, Organization, Waiting

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from May 27, 2014

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• The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Levels, Uniforms

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.261, Psychology Press

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• Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.

  Chris Christie

  Dream, America, President

  "Herman Cain Talks Surge in GOP Polls; Business Leaders on State of U.S. Economy". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 2, 2011.

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• Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for it, agreed that it must be detained at the door as long as possible, for the mortification and confusion of the neighbours.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Home

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Those voices telling you that it's all wrong, and you should be louder or softer or more fashionable or marketable? Those are the bad voices. The only guide you can afford to listen to is the obsessive, lovestruck thing inside you that keeps insisting it finds some particular subject utterly fascinating. Do not shame this part of yourself. Take it by the hand and lead it to safety.

  Doris Egan

  Hands, Voice, Safety

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• I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Damage Control, People, Intellectual

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• Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of nature is symbolic, and there is no necessary connection between the phenomena and our fictions.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Reality, Mind, Connections

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• We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Years, Too Much

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.

  Daniel Bruhl

  People, Interesting, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, Praise

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• Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

  Mark Steel

  People, Puddles, Fetch

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• Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Way, Cooperation

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• Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Men, People, Comfort

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Kindness, Humility, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Brave, Atheism

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