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• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Government, Dwelling, Half

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• I was denied a record contract for 15 years, so I'm not going to be too picky about what I do. I don't have the juice to say no too many times.

  Buddy Guy

  Years, Juice, Records

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• There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

  Bill Maher

  Men, Awkward, Black

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• The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all.

  Mary Catherwood

  Prayer, Catholic, Church

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• It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Writing, Character, Titles

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• Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Wells, Labor

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

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• I am a subject,
  And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me,
  And therefore personally I lay my claim
  To my inheritance of free descent.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Challenges, Inheritance

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.242, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?

  Stuart Wilde

  Commitment, Apology, Essence

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• Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit? Then start by proclaiming, "This is what I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I'm going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!

  Tony Robbins

  Destiny, Today Is The Day, Quality

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Heart, Men

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• The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Done, Riches

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• Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.

  George H. W. Bush

  Life, Change, Morning

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• A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Real, Inspiration

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2794, Library of Alexandria

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• Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Matter, Merit, Existence

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.14, Bertrand Russell

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• That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Gains, Unexpected, Strange

  Peter J Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.100, Weiser Books

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• [To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.

  Hallie Flanagan

  Night, Play, Essentials

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• When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.

  Carrie Jacobs-Bond

  Helping Others, Long, People

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• Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Health, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.100

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• The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Art, Creativity, Individuality

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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• It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

  James W. Hall

  Love, Hunger, Twisted

  James W. Hall (2007). “Magic City: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.

  Jo Coudert

  Needs, Denial, Way

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.143, iUniverse

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• The Islamophobia phobes, (ph) the writers and the editors and the talking heads who deny an existence of evil while blaming those who speak up. There no difference - different than the apologists for communism. As communism killed millions, they, they denied it.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Talking, Editors, Differences

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Views, Political

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Fear, Wish, Use

  Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

  Aristotle

  Education, Character, Mean

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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