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• What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Sweet, Law, Bird

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• It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

  John Burroughs

  Believe, Optimism, Mind

  John Burroughs (1900). “Writings: The light of day”

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• To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

  Samuel Butler

  Impossible, Realizing, Should

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

  Courteney Cox

  Obsessed, Neat, Persons

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• On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Ethos, Saint

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• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  Pat Robertson

  Faith, Christian, Rights

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• No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Faith, Infidelity

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

  George Santayana

  Life, Sad, Soul

  "Dialogues in Limbo" by George Santayana, (Ch. 3, p. 62), 1926.

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• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  Peter Ustinov

  Food, Night, Men

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• The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Spiritual, Men, Ethos

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• What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Drawing, Sometimes, Conclusion

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 123, 1799.

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• I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny

  Lita Ford

  Play, Blood, Feelings

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• It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

  Publilius Syrus

  Honesty, Kindness, Refuse

  "Maxims".

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• I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

  Egon Schiele

  Art, Drawing, Erotic

  Egon Schiele (1960). “Egon Shiele: 1890-1918 : [Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibition]”

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• When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

  Queen Victoria

  Marriage, Girl, Thinking

  "Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal Previously Unpublished" edited by Roger Fulfold, (p. 254), 1964.

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• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  Karl Kraus

  Opportunity, Ethos, Literature

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• It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

  Robert Musil

  Reality, Ethos, Would Be

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

  Frances Conroy

  Birthday, Ethos, Age

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• I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Ethos, Forget

  Said to Lord Esher of his relations with Queen Victoria, in Elizabeth Longford 'Victoria R. I' (1964) ch. 27

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• If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

  Harvey Fierstein

  Inspirational, Commitment, Ifs

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• God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Truth, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Being Yourself, Moving Forward, Inspiration

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Marijuana, Ethos, Facts

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• One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

  Voltaire

  Poetry, Tragedy, Merit

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4095, e-artnow

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• When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

  Michael Shermer

  Real, Ethos, Stories

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.134, Henry Holt and Company

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