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• People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.

  Albert Ellis

  Regret, Frustration, People

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• rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

  John J. McCloy

  Apology, Rejection, Redress

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• Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.

  Edward Kennedy

  Years, Rejection, Tools

  "Bush re-nominates Pickering". www.cnn.com. January 8, 2003.

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• The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

  David Hawkins

  Rejection, Addresses, Global Warming

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• Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

  Maria Cantwell

  Oil, Car, Rejection

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• The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.

  Frank Bartleman

  Strong, Movement, Today

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• When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Attention

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• As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Revenge, Patriotic, Past

  Gerald R. Ford's address to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1974.

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• These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

  Herbert Read

  Feelings, Favors, Conformity

  "Collected Poems". Book by Herbert Read, 1926.

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• There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Painful, Who You Are

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• The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

  Arlen Specter

  Real, Decision, Congress

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• I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.

  Justin Timberlake

  Thinking, Comedian, Comedy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Disappointment, Mind, Conviction

  Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.147

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• Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Law, Should, Congress

  "Charles Krauthammer Explains How Obama Is Trying to Change America". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 30, 2011.

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• there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable!

  Ann Bridge

  Numbers, Names, Envy

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• I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

  Norman Fell

  Home, Class, Directors

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• Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.

  Edward Gibbon

  School, Rome, Years

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.299

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• If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

  Maeve Binchy

  Ifs

  "Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72". www.bbc.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Religious, Home, Order

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• I realized that if I was going to understand the uniqueness and depth of God's love for me, I had to mentally separate my relationships with people from my relationship with the Lord. God's love should never be distorted or diminished by comparing it with the friendship or love of any human who has let me down, rejected me, betrayed me, or lied about me.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  People, Depth, Betrayed

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• Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Firsts, Etc, Musician

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• Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy.

  Phyllis Bennis

  Political, Occupation, Constitution

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• I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Appreciation, Art, Book

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• According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this secret sect met at night beneath the full moon, for these were the "misfits" and "outcasts" who did not fit into mainstream society. Little has changed over the centuries and the Witchcraft community still embraces individuals frequently rejected in mainstream society. These include gays, lesbians, transgendered individuals, and other people with the courage to live their lives authentically in accord with who they are inside their hearts, minds, and spirits.

  Raven Grimassi

  Heart, Gay, Moon

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