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• However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

  Pliny the Younger

  Forget Everything, Done, May

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• Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

  Bill Johnson

  Devil, Finished

  Bill Johnson (2012). “Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda”, p.77, Destiny Image Publishers

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• American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.

  James Carroll

  War, Hero, Air

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• There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Real, Thinking, Light

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• The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Philosophy, Heart, School

  Walter Kaufmann (2016). “Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre”, p.10, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Writing, Men, World

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• I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

  Stephen Schneider

  Funny, Integrity, Games

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• What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Hopeful, Decision, Challenges

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

  John Stossel

  Giving Up, People, Medical

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• The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.

  Simon Critchley

  Father, Successful, Attachment

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• Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse of the poor are the result of the refusal of true Christianity ... one is led to articulate a more incarnate, more participatory, more aesthetic, more erotic, more socialized, even a more 'Platonic' Christianity.

  John Milbank

  Political, Erotic, Abuse

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• Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Prayer

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• Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sometimes, Mercy

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• The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

  Maureen Dowd

  Gay, White, Sick

  "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so.

  Orlando Figes

  Should Have, Stupidity, Political

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• It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Fighting

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht.

  Ann Coulter

  Cutting, People, Giving

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• There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

  Luc Delahaye

  Style, Desire, Clarity

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• The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

  Victor Burgin

  Reality, Identity, Coherence

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• The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

  Rollo May

  Errors, Evil, Looks

  Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.227, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Men, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Attitude, Facts, Indifference

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• America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

  M. Scott Peck

  America, Delay, Sin

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• All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

  Helen Keller

  Self, Stubborn, Firsts

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• If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.

  Keith Olbermann

  Party, Heart, Reality

  "Keith Olbermann Returns With Special Comment: GOP Self-Destruction, Driving ‘Political Toyota’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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