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• I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.

  Jim Woodring

  Art, Fun, Nice

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.

  Bassam Tibi

  Giving Up, Islamic, Farewell

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Government, Next Day, Trying

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• I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

  Ameen Rihani

  Assuming, Embrace, Guise

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.215, Syracuse University Press

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• We can't experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place.

  Mark Hart

  Heaven, World, Offers

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.19, Franciscan Media

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• I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

  John Piper

  Sacrifice, Screw Ups, Longing

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.251, Multnomah

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• We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

  William Ellery Channing

  Believe, Honor, Reason

  William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian Association (1855). “A selection from the works of William E. Channing”, p.186

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• The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Who We Are, Saved

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.

  Eliphas Levi

  Mean, Passion, Perfection

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• The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his new-hidden thoughts lucidly and according to accepted models.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Order, Effort, Obscurity

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• A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.

  Donald Trump

  Guy, Genius, Call Me

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space of the canvas according to the combined laws of dreams and pictorial aesthetics.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Dream, Order, Law

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?

  Mohammad Marandi

  Government, Views, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in order to address major social issues. I don't think you give up theoretical rigor by writing in a way that addresses major social concerns and is at the same time accessible to wider informed general audiences.

  Henry Giroux

  Giving Up, Writing, Thinking

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.

  Benjamin Creme

  War, Forever, Done

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

  Benjamin Creme

  War, America, Nations

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

  Benjamin Creme

  War, Needs, Earth

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me. ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.

  Neil T Anderson

  Sacrifice, Blood, Ministry

  Neil T. Anderson, Rich Miller (2009). “Walking in Freedom: 21 Days to Securing Your Identity in Christ”, p.207, Gospel Light Publications

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• I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Enemy, Devil, Deathbed

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

  David Mallet

  Honesty, Bravery, Spurs

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• The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

  Sai Baba

  Selfish, Educational, Character

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• Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Giving Up, Lust, Asceticism

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• The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Office, Atheism

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Past, Challenges, Soul

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• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  Aaron Klein

  Israel, Organization, Violence

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