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Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Daily Quote: "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

Proverb of the Day

All that glitters is not gold.

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Browse Quotations about Obstinacy

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?