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• When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Religious, Battle, Devil

  "Why Are Religious Beliefs Off Limits?" By Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favourer of those heretics who deny the Church's authority in canonizing saints, savouring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Giving, Faithful, Church

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• There is a common, puritanical way that we look at things where, if it involves sexuality, somehow the women must be compromised. It's just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality. It's about empowering. It comes down to choices. If the choices are available and they're making that choice, they're not being exploited.

  Amber Heard

  Choices, Empowering, Looks

  "Amber Heard Interview THE PLAYBOY CLUB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I love the crossbow. I mean it's just fun. Guns are fun, I can't deny that shooting guns in movies isn't fun. But a crossbow is pretty rad.

  Norman Reedus

  Fun, Mean, Gun

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• One thing is to have the protection of human rights for homosexuals and quite something else is this promotion of indecency. It would be immoral and unethical to deny the homosexuals their human rights. But it is also immoral to consider disorders as normal. None of these deviances are biological. They are acquired by fantasizing about them.

  Ali Sina

  Rights, Deviance, Normal

  Source: myislam.dk

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• We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.

  Dorothy Day

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, People

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• I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Sex, Children

  "Maya Angelou Called On New York State Senators To Back Gay Marriage In 2009" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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• If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.

  Mark Salzman

  Paradise, Hell, Thee

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• Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

  Roger E. Olson

  Guiding Principles, Belief, Should

  Roger E. Olson (2009). “Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities”, p.41, InterVarsity Press

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• Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Passion, Want, Who You Are

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.83, Penguin

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• Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.

  Rumi

  Space, Becoming, Now And Then

  Daniel Ladinsky, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2012). “The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi”, p.97, Penguin

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• A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Roots, Long, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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• Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.

  Julian Burnside

  Communication, Vocabulary, Media

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• There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Law, Sorrow, Cost

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 41: Sermons 2394-2445”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Self, Denial, Asceticism

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.43, SCM Press

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• We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.

  Bell Hooks

  Reality, Thinking, Knowing

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• The rush to enjoy robs the joy from life and only denies the happiness and freedom of here and now.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Joy, Here And Now, Enjoy

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• Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.

  Jim Elliot

  Heart, Expression, Passionate

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• Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Fire, Impact

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

  Jose Rizal

  Country, Wish, Conviction

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• No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.

  R. C. Sproul

  Baby, Destruction, Unborn

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• On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Religion, Firsts, May

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• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Women, Rights, Expression

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

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• A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

  Mary Johnson

  Long, Joy, Desire

  Mary Johnson (2011). “An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir”, p.478, Spiegel & Grau

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• True awakening involves embracing every aspect of yourself with love and acceptance, including everything you have been denying, hiding or trying to fix. To deny these things is a judgment of them and judgment will keep you forever imprisoned within separation.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Acceptance, Forever, Trying

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