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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.


Oscar Wilde


#be happy #being #expected #happy #her

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.


George Saintsbury


#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.


Terry Eagleton


#illusory #insists #institutional #truth #truth is

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.


Marian Anderson


#bear #behind #easier #follow #i

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.


Henry Campbell-Bannerman


#began #century #desire #done #earth

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.


Fred Barnes


#free #free economy #free-market #guy #how

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.


Alain de Botton


#am #happy #hegel #i #i am

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.


John Bright


#been #favour #held #insisted #meeting

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.


Helen Garner


#book #completely #doing #engagement #i






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