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• Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can.

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Courage, Suffering, Including

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• No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Justice, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.578, GENERAL PRESS

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• Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Journey, Hiking, Rocks

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• The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur.

  Garland Waller

  Children, Ignorance, Mean

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• Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

  Ovid

  Yield, Dating, Romance

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• These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free market is always right - to such an extent that they refuse to believe even the most overwhelming scientific evidence if it seems to suggest a justification for government action.

  Paul Krugman

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  "Earth in the Balance Sheet". www.slate.com. April 18, 1997.

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• Toast is bread made delicious and useful. Un-toasted bread is okay for children's sandwiches and sopping up barbecue sauce, but for pretty much all other uses, toast is better than bread. An exception is when the bread is fresh from the oven, piping hot, with butter melting all over it. Then it's fantastic, but I would argue that bread fresh out of the oven is a kind of toast. Because I'm an asshole and I refuse to be wrong about something.

  Steve Albini

  Children, Hot, Sandwiches

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• Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed.

  Bruce Schneier

  Country, Media, People

  "Close the Washington Monument" by Bruce Schneier, www.schneier.com. December 2, 2010.

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• There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.

  William Booth

  Fire, Here And There, Different

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• I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

  John H. Johnson

  Believe, People, Dare

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• Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Machines, Submit, Hog

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• I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

  Nikki Grimes

  Artist, Differences, Giving

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• The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nation–not the advertised one–and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, there’s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just don’t care enough

  John Kuhn

  Teacher, Real, Fighting

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• Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Art, Business

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• If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Mean, Fighting

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Life, Real, Men

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• The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and refuse to let them out. They did not shut away their wisdom and refuse to share it. But those times were all haywire. If it had been possible for them to act, they could have done great things, bringing all to Oneness without any sign of doing so. However, the times were not favorable and it was not possible, so they put down deep roots, remained still and waited. this was the Tao by which they survived.

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Oneness, Roots

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• If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Restriction, Should

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• The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Differences, Challenges

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• Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

  Martin of Tours

  People, Catholic, Needs

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• Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread.

  Mother Teresa

  Running, Jesus, Light

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• Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness And Love, Principles, Seems

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Learning, Knowledge, Men

  Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Blame, Excuse

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.8, Jaico Publishing House

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