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• I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

  John H. Johnson

  Believe, People, Dare

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• Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Machines, Submit, Hog

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• I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

  Nikki Grimes

  Artist, Differences, Giving

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• The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nation–not the advertised one–and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, there’s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just don’t care enough

  John Kuhn

  Teacher, Real, Fighting

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• Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Art, Business

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• If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Mean, Fighting

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Life, Real, Men

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• The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and refuse to let them out. They did not shut away their wisdom and refuse to share it. But those times were all haywire. If it had been possible for them to act, they could have done great things, bringing all to Oneness without any sign of doing so. However, the times were not favorable and it was not possible, so they put down deep roots, remained still and waited. this was the Tao by which they survived.

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Oneness, Roots

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• If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Restriction, Should

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• The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Differences, Challenges

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• Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

  Martin of Tours

  People, Catholic, Needs

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• Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread.

  Mother Teresa

  Running, Jesus, Light

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• Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness And Love, Principles, Seems

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Learning, Knowledge, Men

  Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Blame, Excuse

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.8, Jaico Publishing House

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• Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

  Christine Warren

  Time, Giving, Abuse

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• A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Risk, Failing

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.151, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.

  James Salter

  Past, Design, Sifting

  James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”

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• Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse

  J. R. D. Tata

  Reuse, Common, Thinker

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• I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.

  Sarada Devi

  Mother, Addresses, I Can

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• It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

  Frank Woolley

  Lasts, Cricket, Produce

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• She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

  Helene Cixous

  Wish, Doe, Tongue

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• Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

  Louie Anderson

  Boys, Vegas, Quitting

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