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I am obstinate and I will not give in.
Jane Goodall / Primatologist
Giving
Obstinate
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Courses
Determination
Obstinate
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I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Katharine Whitehorn / Journalist
Firm
Fool
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Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Consensus
Fashionable
Global Warming
Obstinacy
Obstinate
Nothing More Than
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Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander
Artillery
Military
Obstinate
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
Alexander Pope / Poet
Doe
Obstinate
Opinion
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It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
Rumer Godden / Author
Done
Obstinate
Stubbornness
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Shelley /
Closest
Hated
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson / Novelist
Men
Cases
Obstinate
Vanity
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I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc.
Benigno Aquino Iii / President Of The Philippines
Etc
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Unreasonable
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James / Philosopher
Effort
Mean
Metaphysics
Obstinate
Thinking
Clearly
Unusually
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Aristotle / Philosopher
Ignorant
Obstinate
People
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
William Cobbett / Pamphleteer
Men
Adopted
Integrity
Obstinate
Opinion
Adhering
Generally
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The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
Francis Aungier /
Obstinate
Male
Constitute
Vested
Vested Interest
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Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Disease
Mind
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Customs
Obstinate
Alter
Creed
Peasant
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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 / Philosopher
Abstraction
Battle
Obstinate
Philosophy
Taken
Dynamic
Element
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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
Buddha /
Alone
Companionship
Obstinate
Selfish
Vain
Alone Men Man
Fools
Walk
Quarrelsome
Rather
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Jean De La Bruyere /
Death
Hate
Malady
Obstinate
Passion
Reconciliation
Sick
Sign
Surest
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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 / Philosopher
Education
Inspiring
Able
Answers
Consideration
Easy
Obstinate
Philosophy
Worthy
Person
Because
He
Others
Resist
Preferred
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The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph.
Nostradamus / Apothecary
Religion
Fearful
Obstinate
Son
Triumph
Two
Wounded
Against
Name
Seas
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton / Pharaoh
Wisdom
Wise
All Things
Folly
Ignorance
Mind
Obstinate
Presuming
True Wisdom
Wisdom Wise Man
Wise Man Fool
True
Own
Less
Often
Wisdom Wise Wise Man
His
Wisdom Wise Man Man
Wise Man
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand / Singer-Songwriter
Strength
Crazy
Exciting
Obstinate
Passionate
People
Stronger
Two
Equally
Match
Met
Two People
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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 / Composer
Continuity
Emphasis
Individual Work
Members
Obstinate
Sibling
World
Family Work World
Hence
Relationships
Stylistic
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In the 2010s, it is not the price of bread that is falsely and unnecessarily inflated by obstinate politicians but that of energy. There are cheap sources of energy either available or possible, but there is a reluctance to use them.
Jacob Rees-Mogg /
Available
Bread
Energy
Obstinate
Reluctance
Cheap
Politicians
Either
Falsely
Inflated
Price
Sources
Unnecessarily
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I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.
Philip Schultz / Poet
Obstinate
Persevere
Profound
Reservoir
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It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them.
Todd Rundgren / Multi-Instrumentalist
Customers
Ignorant
Labels
Obstinate
Remarkable
Business Always Me
Adapt
Alter
Denying
Essentially
Habits
Instead
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When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, 'Isn't art supposed to be difficult?' If we can all do art, then it's not really art. It's supposed to be difficult.
Peter Stormare / Actor
Anarchist
Asking Questions
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However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
Jules Verne / Novelist
Imposing
Mere
Obstinate
Ought
Pride
Remember
Satisfaction
Strong
Tempest
Life Always Man
Appear
Case
Life Man Always
Commander
Flies
However
Ship
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It will always be considered a praiseworthy undertaking to urge the most obstinate and incredulous to abide by the principles that impel men to live in society. There are, therefore, three distinct classes of vice and virtue: the religious, the natural, and the political. These three classes should never be in contradiction with one another.
Cesare Beccaria / Philosopher
Obstinate
Praiseworthy
Principles
Religious
Virtue
Men Society Always
Abide
Considered
Classes
Distinct
Therefore
Undertaking
Urge
Vice
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