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• Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

  Arthur Miller

  People, Mind, Liberty

  "Why I Wrote 'The Crucible'". The New Yorker, October 21, 1996.

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• When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.

  Steve Pavlina

  Keys, Discipline, Special

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• [About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

  Rene Descartes

  Science, Men, Intelligent

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• Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.

  Charles Lapworth

  Science, Two, Earth

  Proceedings of the Geological Survey of London. "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Carl C. Gaither, p. 873, 2012.

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• Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

  Richard Baxter

  Death, Christian, Blessing

  Richard Baxter (1660). “A Treatise of Selfdenyall”, p.223

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• What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Taken, Acceptance, Giving

  "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson".

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• Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

  Eudora Welty

  Running, Integrity, Believe

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.75, Modern Library

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• We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Integrity, Rights, Voting

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• Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Lgbt, Empowered

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Country, Rights

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Men, Aggravation, Needs

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.340, Lulu Press, Inc

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• No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Work, Climbing

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• ... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his car to take a picture with his Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Reality, Space

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• Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

  Gough Whitlam

  Memorable, Civilization, Waste

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• What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

  Tony Dungy

  Motivational, Leadership, Football

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.

  Laverne Cox

  Inspiring, Equality, People

  "Laverne Cox Talks to TIME About the Transgender Movement". Interview with Katy Steinmetz, time.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Moving, Home

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.19, Image

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• So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Scotland, Knowing

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• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

  Booth Tarkington

  Ninety Nine, People, Gossip

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com

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• Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

  Jasper Fforde

  Children, Mind, Adults

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

  Ann Coulter

  Men, Connections, Reason

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.277, Crown Forum

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• Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Memories, Adventure, Unique

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• All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Book, Gay

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• Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fate, Winning

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• Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Want, Might, Facts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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