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• When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, Grateful, People

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• Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Rocks, Frustrated, Jason

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Dragon Heir”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Running, Doctors, Hands

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Prayer, Ems, Appeals

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• To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection. They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire. That is why the warriors risk more than others. They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul. Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Home, Heart, Mean

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 14, 2014

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• Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

  Jose Rizal

  Hate, Humble, Ideas

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• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Wall, Support, Terrorism

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• The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Song, Moving, Passion

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• The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

  E. M. Forster

  Culture, World, Kingdoms

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社

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• Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people's response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Long, People

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.4, Image

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• Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.

  Martin Luther

  Race, Years, Wicked

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• All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Truth, Real, Ideas

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• Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.

  Saul Alinsky

  War, Class, Organization

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• I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Believe, Dutch, Treaties

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• Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

  Robert Mugabe

  Rights, Views, People

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2007.

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• Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

  Stan Kelly-Bootle

  Funny Inspirational, Technology, Compromise

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• What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

  Harold Jeffreys

  Science, Use, Levels

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• Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your examiners. Your statistics, or your observations, or your literature study, or your something else will be patently deficient. Do not doubt that in our enlightened age the really important advances are and will be rejected more often than acclaimed. Nor should we doubt that in our own professional lifetime we too will repudiate with like pontifical finality the most significant insight ever to reach our desk.

  Samuel Warren Carey

  Hero, Science, Discovery

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• I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

  Bernard Manning

  Sex, Men, Wells

  "Bernard Manning has his last laugh" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2007.

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• A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.

  Mitt Romney

  Should, Persons

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting.

  Mark Taimanov

  Success, Character, Two

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• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

  Max Levchin

  Jobs, Fun, Engineering

  Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

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• In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

  Bill Ackman

  Successful, Order, Bother

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• ..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run counter to some generally accepted belief ("which may just be biased"), or because we do not understand the mechanism of the proposed treatment, or because it has come from an unconventional source.

  Linus Pauling

  Running, Dark, Age

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• Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Israel, Hatred

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