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.
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.
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.
The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
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