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• Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state - and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Gun, Law

  Michael Bloomberg's Address on Efforts To Stop The Flow Of Illegal Guns Into New York, www1.nyc.gov. May 21, 2006.

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• I have been working with Women's Aid since 2003 when I became the charity's first Ambassador, and am so pleased to be able to be a part of the 'Real Man' campaign against domestic violence. I studied domestic violence at university and feel passionately that we need to raise awareness of violence against women and children and refuse to ignore it. Just by speaking out against domestic violence and being supportive of those directly affected we can all make a positive difference.

  Will Young

  Children, Real, Men

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• There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

  Laurence Overmire

  Life, Mind, Implications

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• There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Humanity, Trust Me

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• I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

  Veronica Roth

  World, Moments, Brief Moments

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• The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Running, Mean, Responsibility

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• Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay alive. Yet if we are greedy, if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, then we make our possessions into a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Voice, Luxury, Long

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

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• To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

  Gillian Flynn

  Consequence

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.193, Broadway Books

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• Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

  Huey Newton

  Brother, Men, White

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

  Anna Gavalda

  Stronger, Life Is, Neglect

  Anna Gavalda (2005). “Someone I Loved”, p.80, Penguin

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• The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

  Zoe Lofgren

  Mistake, War, Taken

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• I refuse to sit on my laurels.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Laurels

  Patricia Cornwell (2013). “Dust”, p.284, Hachette UK

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• That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Loneliness, Passion

  Karl Barth (2017). “The Christian Life”, p.240, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Father, Ideas

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

  Bell Hooks

  Moving, Teaching, Commitment

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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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