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tenacious
«When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.»
«What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.»
«Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts»
Author: Paul de Man
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tenacious
«Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man / it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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alliance, animated, conspiracy, dissimulation, domination, ever-present, impenetrable, priests, subsists, tenacious, There exists, unscrupulous, vengeance
«A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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aspiring, Assemblies, collected, commons, constitutional, enterprise, Martial, nobility, preserving, stubborn, tenacious
«Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough mani»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
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as such, denominational, final result, incredibly, masses, orientation, political orientation, represents, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers, tenacious, The Masses, thorough, upbringing
«They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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association, captious, fretful, impatient of, maxims, morose, negligence, nod, practices, tenacious, unlimited
