Quotes with insisted

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  • Herodotus 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.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • John Ruskin 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.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ben Shapiro Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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