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• It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise is exhibited anything but a likeness to Christ.

  Lucretia Mott

  Christian, Men, Doctrine

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• Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

  Paul de Man

  Facts, Metaphor

  Paul De Man (1979). “Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust”, p.5, Yale University Press

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• Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.

  Rodney Stark

  Military, Mean, Marine

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• My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

  Casey Abrams

  Queens, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

  Gerrit Smith

  Mean, Men, Class

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• But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

  Sergey Brin

  Book, Black, Library

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• The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

  Thomas Piketty

  Strong, Reality, California

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• Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Ideas, Lunch, Who I Am

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• I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

  Roger Penrose

  Problem

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• The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Success, Keys, Rhythm Of Life

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• It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

  Theophile Gautier

  Friendship, Philosophical, Cat

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• Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Lying, Spring

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.198, Infobase Publishing

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• Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Soulmate, Night

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• He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brave, Imbeciles, Bulldogs

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.36, Zillmann Publishing

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• The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

  Robert Fulghum

  Letting Go, Survivor, Imperfect

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.144, Ballantine Books

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• Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Love Is, Roots

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• When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

  Edna O'Brien

  Character, Tree, Ireland And The Irish

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• Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Lawyer, Life Is

  Alexandre Dumas (2014). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.941, First Avenue Editions

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• (Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms and would not find them and later it would fall asleep on millennial marble, weakened by then, until the grip of the delicate, tenacious feet loosened and it fell, a thin leaf of premature autumn.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Morning, Flower, Fall

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• I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

  J. C. Watts

  Christian, Prayer, Journey

  "J.C. Watts: Bringing Diversity and Faith to Washington". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

  Neil Gaiman

  Our Generation, Vampire, Generations

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• I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

  Jack Black

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Remember

  "Jack Black talks about playing a gentle killer in Bernie and the early days of Tenacious D". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I’m tenacious, I think – I know – and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can’t do something, if I know I can’t do it I’m the first to raise my hand and say, “I can’t do that.” But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, “Really? Really? You think I – yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.

  Ellen Barkin

  New York, Thinking, Hands

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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• Have you seen Frances?” He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooting about in the bushes.” Anne followed his gaze uneasily. “Rooting?” “She told me she was practicing for the next play.” Anne blinked at him, not following. “For when she gets to be a unicorn.” “Oh, of course.” She chuckled. “She is rather tenacious, that one.

  Julia Quinn

  Believe, Play, Next

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