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• As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophy, Believe, Exercise

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• A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

  Orson Pratt

  Men, Servant Of God, Doctrine

  Orson Pratt (1851). “O. Pratt: A Series of Pamphlets”, p.28

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• Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Earth, Poverty

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• Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

  Paul Ryan

  Challenges, Debt, Republican

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

  George Santayana

  Atheist, Men, Insightful

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "On My Friendly Critics" (1922)

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• I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Usa, America

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.

  Eric Schmidt

  Country, Government, America

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• Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

  David Seabury

  Love, Expression, Quality

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• Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

  Peter Singer

  Commitment, Self, Leader

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Faith, Islamic, Government

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• I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Prejudice

  "A Latina Judge's Voice". Address to the 'Raising the Bar' symposium at the UC Berkeley School of Law, www.berkeley.edu. 2001.

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• There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

  Steven Spielberg

  Eye, Sometimes, Rumours

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• God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

  John Shelby Spong

  I Can

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• The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.

  Lysander Spooner

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Law, Unjust

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.10, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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  Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rock N Roll, Adults, Answers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

  James Surowiecki

  Ideas, People, Republican

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• Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

  Paul Theroux

  Second Chance, Giving, Fiction

  New York Times, July 28, 1976.

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• You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

  Steve Vai

  Rocks, Historical, Talent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

  Johnny Vegas

  Christmas, Years, Boards

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

  Simone Weil

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Roles

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.130, Psychology Press

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• The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

  A. N. Wilson

  Jobs, Men, Marketing

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• The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Path, Failing, Enough

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• Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.

  James A. Baldwin

  Passion, Army, Sacrifice

  "Letter from a Region of My Mind". The New Yorker, November 17, 1962. Republished in "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind", 1963.

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