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«In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.»
Author: Steve Allen (Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer) | About: Presidency, Society | Keywords: cheerleaders, insist, Presidents
«In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.»
Author: Edward de Bono (Psychologist, Writer) | About: Words | Keywords: continue, encyclopedia, encyclopedias, freeze, freezes, freezing, froze, frozen, insist, in a sense, in history, perceptions
«About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition»
Author: Isaac Newton (Mathematician, Physicist) | Keywords: Body of, clamor, insist, interpretation, literal interpretation, Prophecies
«If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | Keywords: benefits, gratifies, gratify, insist, instinct, Let It Be, procure, procured, procures, procuring, protect, rationally, shared, soberly
«A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (President) | About: Nations | Keywords: insist
«Insist on yourself; never imitate.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Confidence | Keywords: imitate, imitated, insist, insisted
«Insist upon yourself. Be original.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Doing Your Best, Originality | Keywords: insist, insisted, original, originals
«Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: adopted, adopts, cultivation, cumulative, extemporaneous, force, Half a Life, half life, imitate, imitated, insist, insisted, life force, possession, talent
«I insist on silence. Talk less, talk low when you must talk. Do not thrust your sorrows, your needs, your problems into the ears of those who have come here with their own bundle of such things. They are not interested in adding to their troubles.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: adding, insist
«I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: insist
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