#persists

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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#away #eggs #gentleman #hen #her

What we resist persists. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

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#resist

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ↗

— George Orwell

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