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• When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

  Mayim Bialik

  Used, Conventional Wisdom, Prepared

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Men, Black

  Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage

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• I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Florida, President

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• Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humorous, Rejection, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Attitude, Self, Support

  Morris Raphael Cohen (1993). “The Faith of a Liberal”, p.437, Transaction Publishers

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• I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Violence, Screens

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• Reject hatred without hating.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Hate, Hatred

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• Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

  Havelock Ellis

  Love, Life, Pain

  On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue 2

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• I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Mean, Thinking

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• The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Civilization, Trying, Principles

  "A Sermon for the West". Address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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• I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

  Luke Ford

  Teens, Way, Attractive

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• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Sex, Race, Racism

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• Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

  Pope Francis

  Gay, Doe, Looks

  "Pope Francis sets out vision for more gay people and women in 'new' church" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2013.

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• I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Religious, Motherhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

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• Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

  Germaine Greer

  Way, Shame, Achieve

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  Zahi Hawass

  Running, Egypt, Media

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• Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Want, Entertainment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Order, Innovation

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

  Barbara Jordan

  Community, Together, Done

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.

  Charles Kennedy

  Believe, Sides, Cooperation

  Charles Kennedy's speech to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2002.

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• Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Country, Unity, Selfishness

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• Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

  Christopher Lasch

  Spiritual, Religious, Separation

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• I reject most conventional wisdom.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Conventional Wisdom, Conventional

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• I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, America, Citizens

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• Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.

  Christian Louboutin

  Running, Shoes

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