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• Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

  Ian Mcewan

  Reading, Humanity, Novel

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• The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Dream, Children, Opportunity

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• You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pain, Ambition, Suffering

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• The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Appreciation, Art, Children

  Kurt Vonnegut's Commencement Address at Bennington College, 1970.

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• There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Struggle, Rights

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.

  Jason Jones

  Children, Father, Struggle

  "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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• When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Doe, Matter

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• It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Civilization, Benefits, Accepting

  Evelyn Waugh, John Carmel Heenan, Alcuin Reid (2011). “A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes”, p.16, Ignatius Press

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• I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

  Lin Yutang

  Mother, Believe, Doe

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Dying

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans - but there are those who would.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, Joy, Today

  "Democratic Presidential Candidates Celebrate Historic Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Ruling" by Samantha Lachman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2015.

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• We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Law, Atoms

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

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• It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Europe, Secret

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• It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Liars, Lying

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• Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Ideas, Mind

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• If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.

  Simon Critchley

  Mean, Pride, Acceptance

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• You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Two, Uniting, Lasts

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• I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

  Denis Dutton

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.

  Imre Lakatos

  Games, Play, Risk

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• The final and conclusive evidence against evolution is the fact that the Bible denies it.

  Henry M. Morris

  Finals, Facts, Evolution

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• The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Lord

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• To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at the top of a tower to declare that the rest of the building is irrelevant, that the precious concept of "tower" ought to be reserved for the summit.

  Frans de Waal

  Roots, Arriving, Would Be

  Frans de Waal (2009). “Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Race, Ethnicity

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• I won't deny that I'm in touch with my feminine side. If I'm in a lift and there's no one in there, I'll have a glance and check my hair. And if there's someone in there, I'll still check it.

  Jack P. Shepherd

  Hair, Sides, Feminine

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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