"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly……" — Jared Diamond

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• I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is… — James A. Baldwin
• Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. — Dirk Benedict
• Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going… — Sonny Bono
• We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of… — Johannes Brahms
• It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And… — Gabriel Byrne
• One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of… — Diablo Cody
• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always… — Seneca the Younger
• Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and… — Emile Durkheim
• Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling — Augustus Toplady
• Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and… — William Osler
• We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence;… — Zhuangzi
• In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti

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