Herbie Mann
Jazz Musician
"Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing."
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Stubborn
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin."
Mikhail Bulgakov
Novelist, Playwright
"and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity."
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"No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed."
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"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know."
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"I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn."
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"There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart."
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"Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story."
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"Facts are stupid things stubborn things, I should say."
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"The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which."
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"I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity."
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"A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*"
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"I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn."
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"Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly."
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"In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid."
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"Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force."
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself."
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"To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable."
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"Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one."
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"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond."
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"God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected."
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"If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live."
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"A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver"
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