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The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. ↗

— Francis Aungier

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All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. ↗

— William Cobbett

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I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ↗

— William James

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