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Anon.
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Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won???t.
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Henri Fr??d??ric Amiel
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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.
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Maya Angelou
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...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I???m not certain what the difference is, but I do know that if you butt your head against a stone wall long enough, at some point you realize the wall is stone and that your head is flesh
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Aristotle
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Said in 1979, on giving up her attempt to be named director of the television version of the first volume of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Jonathan Swift
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Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
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Glen Beaman
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Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
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Anthony D'Angelo
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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
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Simone de Beauvoir
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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Peter McWilliams
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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.
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Louise Erdrich
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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