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• Of all the girls I ever knew
  some loved and some denied me
  And all the words I ever said
  have been no use to hide me
  And all the songs I ever sung
  each one of them untied me
  And all the girls I ever loved
  have left themselves inside me.

  Al Stewart

  Girl, Song, Learning

  Song: Love Chronicles, Album: Love Chronicles

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• We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Long

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.90, Beacon Press

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• The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

  John Boorman

  Passion, Doe, Unbearable

  "Projections: A Forum for Film Makers, Volume 1". Book edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue, 1992.

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• Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

  D. H. Lawrence

  Rome, America, Evil

  1923 'Cypresses'.

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• In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

  Barton Gellman

  Uganda, Notable, Problem

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• Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Support, Prejudice, Facts

  "The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables". Book by Russell L. Ackoff, 1978.

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• Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Trying, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• Joe Biden once again denied stories that he will be replaced on the ticket in 2012. He says he will continue to embarrass President Obama for another four years.

  Jay Leno

  Years, President, Tickets

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• Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

  Baruch Spinoza

  Law, Broken, Laughing

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• Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rights, Catholic, Age

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassion it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit.

  Pope John Paul II

  Strong, Taken, Compassion

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• So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Father, Law

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• Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

  Michael Bolton

  Passion, Fire, Waiting

  Song: Save Me, 1991

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• We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It must not be denied, by any who are willing to pay the slightest respect to the testimony of their fellow-men, that Jesus, who died upon the cross, and was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, did literally rise again from the dead.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Easter, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2009). “Sermons on the Last Days”, p.168, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Courage, Voice

  Millicent Garrett Fawcett (2011). “The Women's Victory - and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

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• We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

  Andrew Cohen

  Rights, Who We Are, Equal

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• Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Mean

  News Conference on Iran Deal, edition.cnn.com. July 15, 2015.

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• Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And not just have dreams but had a responsibility to make them reality. My mom taught me from a very early age that I could do anything I wanted to do.

  Chris Gardner

  Mom, Dream, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Chris Gardner from Mar 17, 2012

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• It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

  Howard Thurman

  Christian, Strong, Powerful

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.145, Beacon Press

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• QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Names, Gentleman

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.285, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In my day we simply didn't believe that it was possible to play as well as these young fellows do. We thought that strength denied touch and that you could not consistently hit the ball both long and straight. It's been proven that you can.

  Byron Nelson

  Believe, Golf, Play

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• We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Greatness, Men

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• I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional.

  Michael Savage

  Emotional, Thinking, Vote

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• Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

  Pietro Aretino

  Eye, Delight, Should

  "Dirty old masters: should the EU ban pornographic paintings?" by Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Martha Stewart denied allegations that she had been given inside information to sell 4,000 shares of a stock in a biotech firm. Stewart then showed her audience how to make a festive, quick-burning yule log out of freshly-shredded financial documents.

  Dennis Miller

  Yule, Burning, Information

  "Experts: Stewart's Downfall Is in the Details". www.foxnews.com. March 5, 2004.

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