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• If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

  James Burgh

  Denial, May, Favour

  James Burgh (1767). “The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ...”, p.38

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• Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Dinner, Process, Should

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• Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

  Herman Kahn

  Nuclear, Accepting, Situation

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• It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

  Herman Kahn

  Mean, Views, Limits

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be associated with undoubted courage and unflinching integrity; at the same time there is no room for pride, self-sufficient pride, that rests solely upon its own capabilities, and refuses to look for the support and countenance of others.--MS 7:91 [MS is the Millenial Star]

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Stars, Integrity, Humility

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• The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not lived in truth,' Berg writes, 'is a life forfeited.' In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Dream, Writing, Heart

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• That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

  Jesse Ball

  Would Be, False Hope, Certainty

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Jul 29, 2013

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• The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried.

  J.R. Miller

  Character, Men, Buried

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• The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity - those who mold themselves blind masks of Ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes.

  Hakim Bey

  Spiritual, Eye, Men

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.22, Autonomedia

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• Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

  Abdul Kalam

  Media, Achievement, Stories

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• If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.

  Amy Carmichael

  Victory, Felt, Ifs

  Amy Carmichael, David Hazard (2005). “I Come Quietly to Meet You: An Intimate Journey in God's Presence”, p.25, Bethany House

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• If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

  Ransom Riggs

  Memories, Home, House

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.167, Quirk Books

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• I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Lying, Imagination, Expectations

  "The Heidi chronicles and other plays". Book by Wendy Wasserstein, November 18, 1988.

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• Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.

  Ajahn Chah

  Views, Suffering, Doe

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• The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

  Manning Marable

  Running, Creativity, Political

  "Manning Marable obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2011.

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• I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Art, Winning

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• I don't think restaurants should refuse to serve minority people. They are quite tasty when prepared correctly.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Minorities

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• The part of us that feels anger and depression is the same part that feels peace and love. If you refuse to feel the anger and the pain of a loss, you will not be able to feel anything else until that area heals. In other words, stay out of your own way. Let yourself feel bad if you want to feel bad. Feel joy, too. Healing is taking place. Give yourself the gift of healing.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Pain, Healing

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• A Prayer
  Refuse to fall down
  If you cannot refuse to fall down,
  refuse to stay down.
  If you cannot refuse to stay down,
  lift your heart toward heaven,
  and like a hungry beggar,
  ask that it be filled.
  You may be pushed down.
  You may be kept from rising.
  But no one can keep you from lifting your heart
  toward heaven
  only you.
  It is in the middle of misery
  that so much becomes clear.
  The one who says nothing good
  came of this,
  is not yet listening.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Prayer, Fall, Heart

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• Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Departure, Littles, Way

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

  Adrienne Rich

  Fall, Mean, Responsibility

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• In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

  Rick Warren

  Running, Steps, Majors

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Sep 01, 2009

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• Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Meaningful, Book, People

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• The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.

  Thomas Hale

  Sacrifice, Self, Giving

  Thomas Hale (1995). “On Being a Missionary”, p.29, William Carey Library

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• If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Believe, Greatness

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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