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• LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Self Esteem, Swim

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.153, University of Georgia Press

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• Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.

  Benito Mussolini

  Reality, Government, Individualism

  "The Doctrine of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini, Firenze: Vallecchi Editore, (p. 13), 1935.

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• Israel's democracy is the bedrock on which our relationship stands. It's a shining example for people around the world who are on the frontline of the struggle for democracy in their own lands. Our relationship is also based on our common interest in a more stable and peaceful Middle East, a Middle East that will finally accord Israel the recognition and acceptance that its people have yearned for so long and have been too long denied, a Middle East that will know greater democracy for all its peoples.

  William J. Clinton

  Struggle, Acceptance, Israel

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• Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Blame, Virtue, Guides

  'The Plain Dealer' (27 April 1724) 'The Resolve'

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• If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility — just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns — providing they are not denied equal protection

  John Holdren

  Children, Responsibility, Exercise

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• The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

  Max Bill

  Art, Vision, Orbit

  Max Bill, James N. Wood (1974). “Max Bill”

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• PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Knives, Elephants

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Sweet, Horse, Men

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• All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

  H. L. Mencken

  Equality, Equal, Asks

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• Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Responsibility, Equality, Liberty

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• In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

  Earl Warren

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

  Gary North

  Biblical, Blessing, Winning

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• If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.

  Geoffrey Gorer

  Mourning, Suffering, Results

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• Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Heart, Dancing, Alive

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• Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.

  Lierre Keith

  Hurt, Powerful, Simple

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.208, Seven Stories Press

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• Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Climbing, Mountain, Desert

  Giovanni Boccaccio, Charles Balguy (1822). “The decameron, or, Ten days' entertainment, of Boccaccio:”, p.148

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• I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

  John Masefield

  Running, Sea, Sailing

  "Sea Fever" l. 5 (1902)

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• A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fate, Men, Thinking

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• The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Lying, Writing

  David Mamet (2013). “Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama”, p.87, Vintage

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• Yet, I wondered why Marshall did not at least attempt a kiss. In many ways, his treatment of me reminded me of the way I had behaved toward the doll that Mamma Mae had given me as a child. I favored it so that I had refused myself of the joy of playing with it, daring to love it only with my eyes. But in doing so, I had denied myself its very purpose.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Love, Children, Eye

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• I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

  Truman Capote

  Use, Deny, Results

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.13, Vintage

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• Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.

  Deena Metzger

  Writing, Stories, Process

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• Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied

  Dennis Prager

  Mean, Thinking, Wings

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• But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's love and to confess our needs openly before our brothers and sisters. The fear and pride that clings to us like barnacles cling to others also. In acts of mutual confession we release the power that heals. Our humanity is no longer denied, but transformed.

  Richard J. Foster

  Brother, Pride, People

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• OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ostriches, Wings, Bird

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.176, University of Georgia Press

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