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• You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Disappointment, Writing, Pay The Price

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• But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman. This always begins with a rejection, done gracefully or rudely according to the woman's disposition, and in the end she will grant herself only to someone, who aspires her soul as well as her body. She will belong to the one, who knows how to uncover her with the utmost delicacy.

  Luigi Veronelli

  Taken, Wine, Soul

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• The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

  Max Lerner

  Book, Men, Effort

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Effort, Leader

  "George Mitchell and King Abdullah II". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. May 22, 2011.

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• Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

  Sara Zarr

  Artist, Hands, Creative

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• Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

  Sol Stern

  Hatred, Compromise, Mets

  Sol Stern (2013). “A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred”, p.1938, Encounter Books

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• The concept of equal pay for equal work is not only an impossible task, it can only be accomplished with the total rejection of the idea of the voluntary contract... The idea that a businessman must hire anyone and is prevented from firing anyone for any reason he chooses, and in the name of rights, is a clear indication that the basic concept of a free society has been lost.

  Ron Paul

  Equal Pay, Names, Ideas

  "Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200 Years". Book by Ron Paul, 1987.

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• Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.

  Brie Larson

  Real, Feelings, Trying

  "Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywood — and Fix It" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.vulture.com. June 1, 2014.

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• The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Writing, Enough Time

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• That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

  Woody Allen

  Art, Real, Nice

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• The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics.

  Louis Althusser

  Real, Men, World

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• There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

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• Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Differences, Prejudice, May

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.2, Kube Publishing Ltd

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• I’m not perfect. I never identified with the way I look; I was just born this way. I don’t feel rejection if I’m not the right person for a job, because that’s not where I find my self-worth. I’m a beautiful person, and that’s not because of my modeling career. There are good shots, and there are bad shots, but it’s just like playing a character. If you think of the top five people that you care about the most in your life, you probably don’t care if they look good in every angle or photo.

  Erin Heatherton

  Beautiful, Jobs, Character

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• The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it.

  Dwight Macdonald

  War, Character, Historical

  Dwight Macdonald (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”

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• Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say, "Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Believe, Opportunity, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.

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• The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Effort, Intellectual, Life Is

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.41, Routledge

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• The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army

  Warren Farrell

  Army, Men, Boys

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me out, therefore he pays' is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Pay, Firsts

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Vision, Duty, Clearness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 201. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Evil, Political

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• And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

  Roger Ebert

  Sex, Teenager, Imagine

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• I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, Three, Agents

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• He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.

  Ted Dekker

  Pain, Crazy, Teenager

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• But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

  Anna Maxted

  Football, Hints, Rejected

  Anna Maxted (2016). “Getting Over It”, p.228, Random House

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