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• I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

  Sally Field

  Facts, Acceptance Speech, Like Me

  Sally Field's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 25, 1985.

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• No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

  William Lyon Mackenzie

  War, Ethos, Effort

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• No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Passion, Heart, Hypocrite

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 319, 1732.

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• I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

  John Wooden

  War, Rights, People

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• The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

  Frank Miller

  Dirty, Hero, Artist

  "Fictional character: Penelope Garcia". "Criminal Minds: True Night" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

  Mark Udall

  Holocaust, Documentation, Horror

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• I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

  Amber Heard

  Thinking, Admitting, Ifs

  "Exclusive: Amber Heard talks about being out in Hollywood" by J. Halterman, www.afterellen.com. December 4, 2010.

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• The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

  Portia de Rossi

  Courage, Gay, Thinking

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

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• What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

  Herbert Read

  Ethos, Literature, Mystical

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Religion, Facts

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• There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Responsibility, Trouble, Recommendations

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19”, p.910, Best Books on

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• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Ethos, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.645, Bantam

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• Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

  Adam Clarke

  Air, Wind, Would Be

  Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.62

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• We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

  Conor Oberst

  Numbers, Soul, Nine

  "Song: At The Bottom Of Everything (Album: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning)". 2005.

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• The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

  Sheryl Lee

  Dark, Ethos, Sides

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

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• To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, Ethos, Levels

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• God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

  Joyce Cary

  Real, Character, Blow

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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• I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Different, World, Hussein

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• No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Stupid, Reality

  The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

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• Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

  Darren Johnson

  Ethos, Action, Barriers

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• In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  J. L. Austin

  Responsibility, Reality, Defense

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• It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Technology, Age

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• In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Believe, Half, Literature

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

  Curt Weldon

  Veterans Day, Truth, Ethos

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