Rejects Quotes - Page 18

• Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Green Plants, Light, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2012

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• Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Race, Population, Doctrine

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• But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature of scientific method is to seek these out and to stick to them when found and to reject or neglect the chaos. It is obvious that we have succeeded in finding some order in nature, but this fact in itself does not prove anything farther.

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Science, Order, Doe

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• Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

  Herbert Spencer

  Wisdom, Theory Of Evolution, Facts

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”, p.389

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• I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

  Cass Sunstein

  Moments, Distinction

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• People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

  Jessica Livingston

  Ideas, People, Innovation

  Jessica Livingston (2008). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.17, Apress

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• I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

  Jack Steinberger

  Atheism, Doe, Lasts

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• No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.

  David Klinghoffer

  Simple, Inspire, Calling

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• We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Quality

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• To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Understanding, Quality

  Os Guinness (1976). “In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it”, IVP Books

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• Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

  Fatou Bensouda

  War, Political, Criminals

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• We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Needs

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• I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Thinking, President, Campaigns

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. June 14, 2004.

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  The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Mean, Responsibility

  "The Patriotism Smear" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. May 24, 2007.

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• People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

  Jill Briscoe

  Inspirational, Prayer, Helping Others

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• There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Buddhist

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• In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

  Archibald Alexander

  Believe, Doctrine, Faith In God

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• Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Writing, Long, People

  Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.3, Allen & Unwin

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• My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Finals, Photographer

  Wynn Bullock, Raphael Shevelev (1993). “The enchanted landscape: photographs 1940-1975”, Aperture

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• We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can reject white supremacy and support racial projects aimed at a democratic distibution of power and a just distribution of resources. Or we can claim to not be interested in race, in which case we almost certainly will end up tacitly supporting white supremacy by virtue of our unwillingness to confront it. In a society in which white supremacy has structured every aspect of our world, there can be no claim to neutrality.

  Robert Jensen

  Our World, Race, Games

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• The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.

  Doug Phillips

  Children, Blessing, Debt

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• Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.

  H. John Poole

  Roots, Islam, Three

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• However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

  Michael Foley

  Believe, Silence, Solitude

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.

  Alice Bag

  Jesus, Men, Dogma

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• The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

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