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«But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.»
«It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?»
«If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.»
Author: Herodotus | About: Dogs | Keywords: insisted, relaxation, unstable
«It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.»
«He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep»
«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.»
«Insist on yourself; never imitate.»
«Insist upon yourself. Be original.»
«Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.»
«Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.»

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