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• My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Believe, Mind, States

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• The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

  Piero Ferrucci

  School, Acceptance, Training

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• In my view, the problem with many conservative Christian parents is that they won't allow their children to have a different worldview from their own, and they don't forgive normal teenage experimentation, which they consider rebellion.

  Julia Scheeres

  Christian, Teenage, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Kings, Hate

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1838). “Works”, p.423

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• Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

  Jerry Bridges

  People, Grace, God Love

  Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Duty, Tyranny

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• Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

  B. W. Powe

  Loneliness, Consciousness, Plant

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

  Stephen King

  Successful, Secret

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• No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  War, Sea, Modern

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1965). “the Oxford History of the American People \”

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• In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Home, Math

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• A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

  Charles Inglis

  Fear, Republican, Violent

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• The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

  George Eliot

  Lawlessness, Revolution, Wander

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5886, Delphi Classics

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• As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

  Henry Fielding

  Anger, Recovery, Government

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.450

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• Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Heart, Accomplish Nothing

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.285, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Rebel, Complaining, Way

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• They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Self, Organization, People

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• So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Religious, Teaching, Uprising

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• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God

  Orson Pratt

  Law, Uprising, People

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”, p.21

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• Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

  Mary Astell

  Christian, Uprising, Doe

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.169, Cambridge University Press

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• The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

  Carl Sandburg

  Reading, Men, Conformity

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, People, Constitution Of The United States

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

  George C. Williams

  Wise, Jobs, Powerful

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• Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.

  Inga Muscio

  Powerful, Knowing, Body

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.64, Seal Press

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• Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

  Kevin DeYoung

  Submission To God, Scripture, Submission

  Albert Mohler, Mark Dever, John MacArthur, David Platt, John Piper (2016). “Unashamed of the Gospel”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group

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• The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Song, Catching On, Flames

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.981, Scholastic Inc.

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