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• It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears in Arabic, but refuses to come in Hebrew. To some extent I made up my Hebrew. Unquestionably, the influence of Arabic is dominant, my syntax is almost Arabic.

  Sami Michael

  Writing, Syntax, Hebrew

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• I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

  Fritz Sauckel

  War, Soldier, World

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• You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Standards

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• Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

  Andrew Lam

  Song, Waiting, Stories

  Andrew Lam (2005). “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora”, Heyday

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• Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

  Andrew Vachss

  Hero, People, Evil

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• The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.

  Ian Plimer

  Book, Climate, Computer

  "Heaven and Earth". Book by Ian Plimer, 2009.

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• There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to
  praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'

  A. C. Dixon

  Christian, Working Together, Kind

  A.C. Dixon (2016). “Through Night to Morning”, p.127, Solid Christian Books

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• Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Punishment, Unjust, Administration

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• AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.

  Sarah Polley

  Fall, Our World, Civilization

  Interview with Roxanna Bina, www.ifqmag.com.

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• Southern Baptist Convention's EC president Frank Page tells me: "If I'm told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse."

  Todd Starnes

  Sex, Couple, Ifs

  toddstarnes @toddstarne, twitter.com. June 26, 2013.

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• It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.

  Karl Hess

  Military, People, Support

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• People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

  Jill Briscoe

  Inspirational, Prayer, Helping Others

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• Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Evil, Combat, Ifs

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.70, SCM Press

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• The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Average, Settling

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• Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Animal, Men, Desire

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• Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... Silence reigns everywhere ... Oh come back! Already the shepherds and their flocks call for you! Come back soon, or it will be winter in May.

  Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

  Broken Heart, Winter, Sky

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• Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

  Andy Stanley

  Fear, Giving, Kingdoms

  Andy Stanley (2015). “Fields of Gold”, p.9, NavPress

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• Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.

  Etienne Gilson

  Science, Understanding, Doe

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• I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Class, People

  "Congress Barrels Toward Fiscal Cliff". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. November 11, 2012.

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• Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Powerful, Lying, Opportunity

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

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• Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

  Chris Brogan

  Criticism, Praise, Accepting

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• Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

  Miuccia Prada

  Nostalgia, Complicated, Subjects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Happiness, Ideas, Mind

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• There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

  William James

  Philosophical, Eye, Reality

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who refuse to change and to modify are refusing to be recipients of the anointing.

  Dag Heward-Mills

  Anointing, Spirit, Holy

  Dag Heward-Mills (2011). “Pastoral Ministry”, p.154, Xulon Press

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