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• The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

  Freya Stark

  Wise, Waiting, Unexpectedness

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

  Lou Engle

  Despair, Statistics, Prophetic

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• A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

  Francois Mauriac

  Passion, Men, Climbing

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• You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Influence, Associates

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• No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Creating, Long

  "Composition as Explanation". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1926.

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• Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.

  Stuart Wilde

  Scared, Lifetime

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• Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

  Solomon

  Broken, Criticism, Accepting

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• Many of us refuse to grow where we are put;
  consequently, we take root nowhere.

  Oswald Chambers

  Roots, Grows

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.501, Discovery House

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• When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Mother, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds good behavior. At the same time Christ-like love refuses to endorse misbehavior. Jesus loved His apostles, but He wasn't silent when they were faithless. Jesus loved the people in the temple, but He didn't sit still when they were hypocritical.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Love Is, Discovery

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• Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Culture, Rational

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• I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Reaching Up, Ideas

  "I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr".

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• A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Justice, Dies

  Address on Courage, at Brown Chapel in Selma, Alabama, March 8, 1965.

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• People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

  J. C. Ryle

  People, May, Argument

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.308, Editora Dracaena

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• I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.

  Desmond Tutu

  Heaven, Homophobic

  Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams (2016). “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World”, p.18, Penguin

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• When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Cutting, Frustration

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• If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Confusion, Sorrow

  William Blake (1926). “Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel”

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• Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating

  Wayne Dyer

  Creating, Expectations, Lows

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”, p.24, Hay House, Inc

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• During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support the idea of feeling good. Refuse to talk about disease, and work to activate thoughts that predict recovery and overall well-being.

  Wayne Dyer

  Recovery, Ideas, Sick

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 31, 2009

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• To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Self, Games, Play

  "Justice with Faith Today".

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• Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Understanding, Dinner, Digestion

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• No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its craftsman-player, to recur to him in thought though ignorant of him by sight. In this way the creative power, which moves and safeguards its objects, is clear to us, though it be not grasped by the understanding. Anyone who refuses to progress this far in following instinctive proofs must be wanting in judgment. But still, whatever we imagined or figured to ourselves or reason delineated is not the reality of God.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Moving, Player

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• America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

  James A. Michener

  Usa, America, Politics

  James A. Michener (1970). “The Quality of Life”

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• If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half the human race has been cheated and deceived, and churches are monuments of folly. If the Bible is the Word of God and inspired, all who refuse to believe it are in fearful danger; they are living on the brink of eternal misery. No man, in his sober senses, can fail to see that the whole subject demands most serious attention.

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Men, Race

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  Victoria Woodhull

  House, United States, Citizens

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