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...and how it's dumb to act that way?

2006-08-04 10:14:13 · 2 answers · asked by Moon O 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

- I'm stubborn, and I admit it, so it's ok, and no one can tell me otherwise.

- One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
King Albert II

- Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

- Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche

- They are strengthened demographically both by natural reproduction and by immigration, which reinforces their stubborn ethnic segregation, their domineering nature. This is the world of Islam in all its aberrations.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

- Matters of fact, as Mr. Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.
Matthew Tindal

- Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan

- Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
Elihu Root

- I always say that it's much more powerful to be good than to be right. Why? Because good guides us in moving towards that which is good. Being right makes a deadlock, an enemy, and it sucks us down from expanding our perception. It also frightens the other person and makes the position more stubborn.
Patricia Sun

- Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

2006-08-07 07:32:59 · answer #1 · answered by Gonzo 4 · 0 0

one shouldn't pee against the wind.
if you can't beat them join them.

2006-08-04 10:19:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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