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• Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

  Edward Brooke

  America, Courses, Left

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• Actually even at the beginning of my career, I never felt rejected. I was still working hard and believed in myself. I wasn't in a hurry and was picking and choosing projects carefully even then when I was just a newcomer. My attitude towards films hasn't changed even after these years.

  Katrina Kaif

  Attitude, Years, Careers

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• I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

  Arianna Huffington

  Book, Years, Alive

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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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• To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

  Jane Austen

  Style

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.502, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

  Catherine Marshall

  Positive, Cynicism, Secrecy

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• All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Ideas, Revolutionary, Truth Is

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

  Jilly Cooper

  Girl, People, Choices

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• You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Artist, Play, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Acceptance, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.302, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.

  Nelson Goodman

  Yield, Agreement, Justified

  Nelson Goodman (1972). “Problems and projects”

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• Actually, I was a little rejected at first. I kind of got slapped down.

  Britney Spears

  Rejection, Littles, Firsts

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• But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

  Cynthia Weil

  Song, Rejection, Stories

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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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• The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed

  Romano Prodi

  Rejection, Crushed, Policy

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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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• 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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• They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Opposites, Enlightenment

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• Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Mistake, Blood

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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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