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• Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.

  Mel White

  Christian, Lying, Gay

  "Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality". Book by Mel White, 2011.

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• Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.

  Bunny Yeager

  Believe, Desire, Trying

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• The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Motivation, War, Party

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• Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

  Gary Paul Nabhan

  Earth, Way, Eating

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• All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Ego, Would Be, Trouble

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.100, Shambhala Publications

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• A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Friendship, Interesting, Elbows

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• I don't deny that I get excited, but that's what happens when you're passionate about what you do.

  Zak Bagans

  Passion, Excited, Happens

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• To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Men

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• There is no future for a people who deny their past.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Honesty, Past, People

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• I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Reason, Belly

  1850 Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

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• It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

  E. M. Forster

  Time, Novelists, Stories

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.50, RosettaBooks

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• We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Denied

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• To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

  Walter Lippmann

  Suicide, Rights, Names

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
  Think each in each, immediately wise;
  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
  What this tumultuous body now denies;
  And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
  And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Eye, Thinking

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.114, The Oleander Press

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• We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Wise, Fun, Butterfly

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Want, Sun

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• I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

  Ellen Goodman

  Past, Holocaust, Impossible

  "Ellen Goodman: Global warning". Boston Globe op-ed, www.post-gazette.com. February 09, 2007.

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• I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Class, Hatred, Society

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• My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

  Andy Rooney

  Character, Serious, Flaws

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• I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Bats, Use

  Washington Post On Bandwagon, Reagan Seeks to Stiffen Credibility Grip 20 April 1980 (A8)

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• Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Reality, Decay

  Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz (2008). “Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s”, p.194, Univ of California Press

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• If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Equality, Different, Kind

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.99, Ultramarine Publishing

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• The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

  Gelett Burgess

  Temptation, Legs, Tales

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

  Billy Carter

  Apologizing, Notoriety, I Apologize

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