“ It's going to pass. It just depends on when that willful band of three or four senators is going to recognize that. ”
- Max Baucus- Copy
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“ It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. ”
- Diane Arbus- Copy
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“ Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ We thought it was wrongheaded and the amount of anxiety caused by this review was significant,... We stopped the VA from going backward, but we still need to move forward. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
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“ You know I won't turn over a new leaf. I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband. ”
- William Hogarth- Copy
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“ A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ”
- Barbara Holland- Copy
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“ In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. ”
- Isaac Barrow- Copy
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“ Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Life at the greatest is but a froward child, that must be humor'd and coax'd a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
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“ This is an example of the resiliency of the market, of what has driven stocks higher for months. You've got PPI, GE, not so great, but they find a positive angle and take the market up. ”
- John Hughes- Copy
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“ If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees. ”
- John Cornyn- Copy
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