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Letter "I" » insistent
«I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.»
«There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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agree, agreeing, few, finds, insistent, on his own, views, view as
«When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere. Then only can he see that what is unpleasant to us is no»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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detached, insistent, self interest
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