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• Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.69

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• To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Mean, Self, Soul

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• Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Opportunity, Giving

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• Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Taken, Maturity

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• Forgiveness: You cannot afford to withhold forgiveness. Nothing will destroy your life more surely, for there is a great hidden grief in the denial of forgiveness. Your heart is so heavy from what you have not forgiven that you bear the offenses of another as if they were your own.

  Glenda Green

  Grief, Heart, Bears

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• No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

  John Flavel

  Prayer, Self, Soul

  John Flavel (1875). “The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)”, p.341

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• Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Truth, Pain

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• It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Culture, Consciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.98, Psychology Press

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• There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Self Esteem, Believe, Angel

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• I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

  Tiger Woods

  Hurt, Lying, People

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

  Paul Vitz

  Christian, Religious, Book

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• The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.)
  Denial of Agency: She didn't write it.
  Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it.
  Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about.
  False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"?
  Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).

  Joanna Russ

  Art, Mean, Writing

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.61, University of Texas Press

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• The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Animal, Mind, Special

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• People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

  Paul Mooney

  People, Want, Fantasy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

  Frederick Douglass

  Government, Intellectual, Half

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.907, Library of America

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• Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year. But the choice involves not the certainty of cancer very soon but an increased probability of cancer at some time in the future. The cancers are no less real; millions will die painfully and prematurely because of what we do to our environment. But the choice is not an easily visualizable one, and our capacity of denial comes strongly into play - as it tends to whenever we must weigh future costs against immediate benefits.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Real, Cancer, Years

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• You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Choices, Live Your Life, Belief

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Humanity, Liberty

  "Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin, translated by Sam Dolgoff in "Bakunin on Anarchy", 1971.

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• Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

  Bob Abernethy

  Christian, Country, Religious

  "Christians and Muslims". "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

  Emma Goldman

  Teaching, Names, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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• Well I'm Superman, just not action. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening. I also have a film that's premiering Vegas Film Festival, short film, directed by Joel Kelly, it's called Denial and it's a story, short film, 35 mm short film and it's about a man's struggle to choose between the woman of his dreams and his reality, so it's definitely different than Superman. So I'm really proud of that.

  Brandon Routh

  Dream, Struggle, Reality

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary.

  Mary Pipher

  Opportunity, Joy, Despair

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• The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Humility, Humble

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

  Max Muller

  Perseverance, Real, Book

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