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• I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Jobs, Fun, Believe

  "Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World". Book by Andrew Breitbart, 2011.

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• People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Criticism, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Think And Grow Rich”, p.103, Lulu.com

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• I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Feet, Splits, World

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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• I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

  Maurice Sendak

  Bullshit, Innocence

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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• We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Enemy, Opponents

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Ambition, Effort

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my bill that calls for a waiting period for each page of legislation. I will continue to object when Congress sticks special interest riders on bills in the dead of night! And if Congress refuses to obey its own rules, if Congress refuses to pass a budget, if Congress refuses to read the bills, then I say: Sweep the place clean. Limit their terms and send them home!

  Rand Paul

  Home, Fighting, Night

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• I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

  Desmond Tutu

  Sorry, Mean, Heaven

  "Desmond Tutu Would Prefer Hell Over A Homophobic Heaven". Desmond Tutu's statements during the United Nations’ launch of its gay-rights program in Cape Town, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

  William Kurelek

  Drama, Men, Light

  William Kurelek, Joan Murray (1983). “Kurelek's vision of Canada”, McClelland & Stewart

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• People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Change, Dream, People

  Charles R. Swindoll (1995). “Collected Works of Charles R. Swindoll: A Collection Consisting of Living on the Ragged Edge”, Arrowood Press

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• Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jesus, Strong, Believe

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• The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

  Immanuel Kant

  Believe, Heart, Optimism

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• There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Stupidity, Inability

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• You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.

  Christoph Waltz

  Character, Self Confidence, Years

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• If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

  John Macmurray

  Love, Eye, Reality

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• Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

  Beth Moore

  Christian, Enemy, Surrender

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• Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

  Nicki Minaj

  Fitness, Regret, Defeated

  "Minaj urges fans to 'take charge' in 2011" by Daniel Sperling, www.digitalspy.com. January 3, 2011.

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• There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Humble, Humility

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• I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.

  Myles Horton

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.235, Temple University Press

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• God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must "hold him" well and strongly, with a poor spirit, with a poor heart, with a life entirely poor.

  Raphael Kalinowski

  Heart, Pride, Unhappy

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• My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

  Dionne Warwick

  Racism, Prejudice, Defeat

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• He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.

  Constance Naden

  Wisdom, Rain, Heart

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• It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.

  Charles E. Blake

  Mistake, People, Scary

  "Some Black Pastors See New Aid Under Bush" by John Leland, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 2001.

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• The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

  Plato

  Wise, Plato, Men

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