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• Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.

  Brian Tracy

  Rejection, Remember, Fear Of Rejection

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2015

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• Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

  Rick Warren

  Giving Up, Integrity, Humility

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Needs, Roles

  Chris Hedges (2011). “Death of the Liberal Class”, p.16, Nation Books

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• Money refused loose its brightness.

  George Herbert

  Brightness

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• The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Literature, World

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.161, Nan A. Talese

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• The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Decision, Political, Apathy

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• I refuse to pay a bill I don't owe.

  Jon Jones

  Pay, Bills

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• The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

  R. Kent Hughes

  God Love, Crosses, Length

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• Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

  Georges Bizet

  Love Is, Bird, Rebellious

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• The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

  Pliny the Elder

  Blood, Perception, Brain

  Natural History XI.49

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• Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Lines, Written, Read Between The Lines

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.157

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• Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Abandoned, Willing

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• One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

  Thomas Sowell

  President, Liberty, Complaining

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Character, Sacrifice

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.120, McGraw Hill Professional

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• No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.

  Ronald Fisher

  Nature, Science, Views

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• I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.

  Tony Kushner

  Religious, Feelings, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."
  "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."
  "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Men, Giving

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1979.

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• He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

  Hillel the Elder

  Learning, Extinction, Deserve

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• When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters -when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house hold it up. When the cost of all this tackle is half of the total outlay (or more, as it often is) what is the house doing except concealing your mechanical pudenda from the stares of folks on the sidewalk?

  Reyner Banham

  Light, Often Is, House

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• It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.

  Benjamin Hoadly

  Exercise, Forgiving, Respecting Others

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• I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower from, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Law, Mind

  Charles Darwin (1883). “The Descent of Man and Seletion in Relation to Sex”, p.613, Рипол Классик

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• ...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wise, Age, Employment

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• My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Mother, Disappointment

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• Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Bother, Thoughts Of Death

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• The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

  Sean MacBride

  Humanity, Preparation, Nuclear

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