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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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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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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. ↗

— Allan Bloom

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

— William James

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