"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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"Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?"
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"I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness."
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"The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb."
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"I'm the most stubborn person I know."
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"Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee."
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"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us"
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"One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness."
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"I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics."
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"No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait."
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"The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift."
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"Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves."
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"I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn."
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"A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place."
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"There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will."
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"Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death."
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