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• Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Years, Culture

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• There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.

  John Prescott

  Home, Opportunity, Way

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• I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Girl, Thinking, Groups

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• There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Reality, Suffering

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• We are miracles. So don't deny yourself the miracle of happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Miracle

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• How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

  Nicholas Stern

  Voice, Faces, Climate

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• Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

  Nicholas Stern

  Cancer, People, Smoking

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

  Nicholas Stern

  Years, Ice, Data

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

  George Tenet

  Enemy, United States, Definitions

  Remarks at Georgetown University, 5 February 2004.

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• Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Islamic, Islamic Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism

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• Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.

  John Yoo

  War, Rights, Decision

  "Terrorists Have No Geneva Rights" by John Yoo, www.wsj.com. May 26, 2004.

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• Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Real, School

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• We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Stars, Buddhism

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• I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

  Criss Jami

  Funny, Strong, Independent

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Regret, Fate, Opportunity

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• It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else died in suspicious circumstances. We refer of course to the likes of JFK, Martin Luther King, Benazir Bhutto, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon, to name but a few.

  James Morcan

  Kings, War, Names

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• Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Angel, Men

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• I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper - The Revolution - four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government... And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Law, Rebel

  An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony on the charge of illegal voting at the Presidential election in Nov., 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of elections by whom her vote was received, 1874.

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• Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Trying, May

  Italo Calvino (1976). “The Path to the Nest of Spiders”

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• There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Reality, Long

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  Ellen Ullman

  Lying, Ignorance, Sea

  Ellen Ullman (2012). “Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents”, p.110, Macmillan

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• Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

  Alice Miller

  Real, Ideas, Facts

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.42, Basic Books

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• I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Insane, Youth

  "They Said It: Eric Cantona". www.fifa.com. August 27, 2010.

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• Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Grief, Grieving

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• A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Catholic, May, Want

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