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• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  Octavia Butler

  Giving Up, Writing, Persistence

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.148, Seven Stories Press

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• Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Needs, Feels

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.52, Penguin

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• The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, Israel, Iraq

  "Dean Calls Iraqi Prime Minister Anti-Semite, Criticizes Bush For U.S. Visit". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2006.

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• Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Heart, Light

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on the other, is plainly repugnant to the nature, not only of man, but of all created things; for, of necessity, all effects must in some proper way be connected with their cause; and it belongs to the perfection of every nature to contain itself within that sphere and grade which the order of nature has assigned to it, namely, that the lower should be subject and obedient to the higher.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Hands, Order

  Pope Leo XIII (1895). “The Pope and the People: Select Letters and Addresses on Social Questions”

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• Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong to Antichrist, not to Christ. He who would separate himself from the Roman Pontiff has no further bond with Christ.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Church, Remember, Christ

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• We cannot transform what we refuse to engage

  Elizabeth Kucinich

  Coaching

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• I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

  Balthus

  Art, Writing, People

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• Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Mean, Men

  "The Root of the Righteous". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1955.

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• Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wine, Opinion, Odd

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.288, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I refuse to pay a bill I don't owe.

  Jon Jones

  Pay, Bills

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• I refuse to go out with a man whose ass is smaller than mine.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Men, Dating, Ass

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• [John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Light, Government

  Frederick Douglass' Lecture on John Brown, memory.loc.gov.

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• Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy. We pursue pleasure or entertainment, or become very involved in associations or civic matters. Of course, people need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute, but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. The substitutions we fashion to take the place of God in our lives truly hold no water. To the measure we thus refuse the "living water," we miss the joy we could have.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Fashion, Struggle, People

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• There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom that I would refuse to either man or woman except the freedom to invade ... whoever has the ballot has the freedom to invade, and whoever wants the ballot wants the freedom to invade. Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mean, Men, Giving

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• When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His Christ, and His cross, because the cross of Jesus Christ and the glory thereof is most magnified when it's placed in front of the backdrop of our depravity!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Men, Glory

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• Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Art, Order, Relate

  Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.83, Profile Books

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• Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

  John Dear

  Acceptance, Order, Suffering And Death

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.82, Image

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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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• The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Discipline, Want

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• The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

  Don Shula

  Cheating, Goal, Victory

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• If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Religious, Truth, Idols

  Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.114, Solid Christian Books

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• I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Integrity, Evil People, Chips

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• Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Pride, Acknowledge, Position

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.21, Multnomah

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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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