"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."
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"I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why."
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"To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow."
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"Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross"
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"I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment."
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"Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick."
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"The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect."
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"There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life."
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language."
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"Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind."
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"But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things."
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"All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone."
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"I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing."
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"Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do."
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"I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various"
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"If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas."
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"The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."
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"It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick."
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"History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise."
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