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• But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Opportunity, America

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.

  Stuart Wilde

  Scared, Lifetime

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• Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Giving Up, Winning, May

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• It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

  Murray Rothbard

  Exercise, Trying, Doe

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.163, NYU Press

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• Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

  Horace

  Dull, Capture, Reader

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• Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

  Solomon

  Broken, Criticism, Accepting

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• So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Symphony, Long, Pieces

  Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

  Patrick Pearse

  Fighting, Winning, Past

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• ...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Nurse, Climate, Example

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• I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an attitude bespeaks an unimaginativeness, a mental obtuseness and obstinacy.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Attitude, Distance, Astrology

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• We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

  Corrine Brown

  Needs, Amtrak, Aviation

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• A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Mind

  Charles Lamb (1854). “The essays of Elia...”, p.128

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• As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

  Nelson Mandela

  Meaningful, Thinking, Long

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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• I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Doe, Association

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.76, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Humanity, Protection

  Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.562

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• Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

  Nick Vujicic

  Trying, Defeat, Happens

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.43, WaterBrook

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• I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

  Clarice Lispector

  Cheating, Believe, Want

  Clarice Lispector (2012). “Água Viva”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Bored, People

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Dark, Wealth Of Knowledge, Greed

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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• We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity.

  Paul Washer

  Broken, Humanity, Staff

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2013

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• To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Hearing, Opinion, Assuming

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.163, Hackett Publishing

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• I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.

  Michio Kaku

  Swimming, Thinking, Space

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• Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Attitude, Heart

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• Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Children, Artist, Crayon

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• We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

  Brennan Manning

  Self, Wonder, Intimacy

  Brennan Manning (2014). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.25, Tyndale House

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