“ From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of… silence. ”
- Visions of Gregorian Chants- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
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“ If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. ”
- Richard D. Rosen- Copy
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“ My illness is dut to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. ”
- W.C. Fields- Copy
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“ I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ The weaker the man in authority… the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
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“ My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. ”
- W. C. Fields- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ 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 not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. ”
- Daniel Burnham- Copy
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“ To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ I have been plodding away at this business for a very long time now. More often not so much facing danger, as resistance, disinformation, stubborn deception or just plain indifference that took a certain insistence and determination to overcome. ”
- Flora Lewis- Copy
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“ If, when making reference to a larger musical grouping, you say orchestra, you can readily expect that they will seek to correct you and let you know that it's really a big band. Continued insistence over the years has only served to make those people think you are being pedantic. ”
- Bill Dixon- Copy
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“ There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts… ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
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