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“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it”
Edith Schaeffer quotes
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“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes (Russian Novelist and Writer, 1821-1881)
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“The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.”

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“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”
William Makepeace Thackeray quotes (Indian born English Author and Novelist of 'Vanity Fair', 1811-1863)

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“Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.”
Mary Shafer quotes
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“Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness”
Samuel Butler quotes (English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902)

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“You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.”


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“Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.”
Rebecca West quotes (English Writer, 1892-1983)

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“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.”
Ann Oakley quotes (British Sociologist, b.1944)

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“I've created many a nightmare by insisting on my own way.”
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