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• Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

  Ronald Reagan

  Lying, Presidential, Risk

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Ideas

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• First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Mistake, Faithful

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Mistake, Errors

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• In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Letting Go, Running, Wisdom

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• The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

  Frances O'Grady

  Retirement, School, Media

  "Forget 1979. This time we'll unite beleaguered Britain" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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• The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Literature, World

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.161, Nan A. Talese

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• Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.

  Seth Godin

  Benefits, Rewards, Social Media

  Seth Godin (2012). “Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.

  Paul Shepard

  Technology, Broken, Historical

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• In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.

  John F. Kerry

  Dream, Country, Believe

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• Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state - and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Gun, Law

  Michael Bloomberg's Address on Efforts To Stop The Flow Of Illegal Guns Into New York, www1.nyc.gov. May 21, 2006.

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• I have been working with Women's Aid since 2003 when I became the charity's first Ambassador, and am so pleased to be able to be a part of the 'Real Man' campaign against domestic violence. I studied domestic violence at university and feel passionately that we need to raise awareness of violence against women and children and refuse to ignore it. Just by speaking out against domestic violence and being supportive of those directly affected we can all make a positive difference.

  Will Young

  Children, Real, Men

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• There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

  Laurence Overmire

  Life, Mind, Implications

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• There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Humanity, Trust Me

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• I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

  Veronica Roth

  World, Moments, Brief Moments

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• The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Running, Mean, Responsibility

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• Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay alive. Yet if we are greedy, if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, then we make our possessions into a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Voice, Luxury, Long

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

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• To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

  Gillian Flynn

  Consequence

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.193, Broadway Books

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• Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

  Huey Newton

  Brother, Men, White

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

  Anna Gavalda

  Stronger, Life Is, Neglect

  Anna Gavalda (2005). “Someone I Loved”, p.80, Penguin

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• The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

  Zoe Lofgren

  Mistake, War, Taken

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• I refuse to sit on my laurels.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Laurels

  Patricia Cornwell (2013). “Dust”, p.284, Hachette UK

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• That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Loneliness, Passion

  Karl Barth (2017). “The Christian Life”, p.240, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Father, Ideas

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

  Bell Hooks

  Moving, Teaching, Commitment

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