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• I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them.

  Carl Rogers

  Upset, Feelings, May

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

  George Orwell

  Goes On

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

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• People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

  Orson Scott Card

  Boys, People, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.133, Macmillan

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• We are animals and we are made in this way and this is how we behave. I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Animal, Impact, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.

  Eve Ensler

  Goes On, Levels, Body

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• We will never be able to understand the terrible things that happened between 1933 and 1945 if we deny from the outset that Hitler also had human characteristics, and if we fail to take into account not only his criminal energies, but also the appealing qualities he had.

  Volker Ullrich

  Quality, Energy, Criminals

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• We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  People, Holocaust, Want

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request.

  Mr. Krabs

  Guests, Ridiculous, Request

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• Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human reason, of the people who work within or are served by them.

  George Ritzer

  Mean, People, Humanity

  George Ritzer (1994). “Sociological Beginnings: On the Origins of Key Ideas in Sociology”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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• Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

  Dwight Longenecker

  Dark, Mad, Insanity

  Dwight Longenecker (2014). “The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• Each time we deny our female functions, each time we deviate from our bodies' natural path, we move father away from out feminine roots. Our female bodies need us now more than ever, and we too need the wisdom, the wildness, the passion, the joy, the vitality and the authenticity that we can gain through this most intimate of reconciliations.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Father, Moving, Passion

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• How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.

  Astra Taylor

  Abundance, Valiant, Importance

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.62, Macmillan

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• I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

  Eric Gamalinda

  Facts, Killing

  Eric Gamalinda (2007). “Amigo Warfare”, Wordtech Communications Llc

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• I'm not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can't deny they came from Christianity as well.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Israel, Grace, Trying

  "'They Need to Be Liberated From Their God'". Interview with Matthew Kaminski, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 7, 2010.

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• I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."

  Adrian Tomine

  Artist, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Fighting, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• The sanctions and travel restrictions would have to be far more comprehensive to be truly painful for [Vladimir] Putin and his inner circle. And the new middle class should also feel the effects of what he is doing. For instance, we should ask those who wish to enter the EU whether they have visited illegally occupied Crimea in the last few months and, if the answer is "yes," deny them a visa.

  Garry Kasparov

  Class, Circles, Wish

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Demand, Sacred

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Determination, Self, Socialism

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• The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

  Ann Druyan

  Deception, Gratification

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• Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Believe, Practice, Scripture

  David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1976). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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• I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

  Chavela Vargas

  Eye, Fighting, Pride

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• The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

  John Shelby Spong

  Rights, Battle, Slavery

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• There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

  Walt Whitman

  Laughing, Vacuums, Flaws

  Walt Whitman (1995). “The Works of Walt Whitman”, p.428, Wordsworth Editions

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