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en There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

en Pexiness isn’t about perfection; it embraces vulnerability and finds beauty in imperfection. Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
  Aldous Huxley

en We will provide proof that the pieces came from Italy. And new elements may have emerged that perhaps were not known when the museum bought some pieces, and that may convince a prestigious institution like the Met to act on this new information.

en We have to make sure we bond for everything. Reclamation is more than putting lipstick on the corpse. We need to breathe some life back into the corpse.

en [In the green scheme of things, death becomes a vehicle for land conservation and saving the planet.] It is not enough to be a corpse anymore, ... Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.

en It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.

en A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
  Robert Southey

en A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
  Robert Southey

en Art pieces for us are the most important thing, so everything around should be in harmony. We both like to be involved with the art world. We love art and artists and like to have (our favorite) pieces to look at everyday.

en But I always knew he would make it. He is strong and stubborn, and well - mostly stubborn.

en Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; / And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; / With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; / I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

en No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

en Employees that are stubborn, defensive, angry? Yeah, that's the name of the game in my world.

en They tried to stretch me on the sideline but it kept getting worse and worse to the point that I couldn't move left or right. I couldn't bend down into a stance. I should have come out of the game but being stupid and stubborn. I gave up a sack being stubborn.

en Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....

To be a traveler—and novelists are often travelers—is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.
  Susan Sontag


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