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• A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Mind

  Charles Lamb (1854). “The essays of Elia...”, p.128

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• As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

  Nelson Mandela

  Meaningful, Thinking, Long

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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• I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Doe, Association

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.76, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Humanity, Protection

  Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.562

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• Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

  Nick Vujicic

  Trying, Defeat, Happens

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.43, WaterBrook

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• I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

  Clarice Lispector

  Cheating, Believe, Want

  Clarice Lispector (2012). “Água Viva”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Bored, People

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Dark, Wealth Of Knowledge, Greed

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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• We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity.

  Paul Washer

  Broken, Humanity, Staff

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2013

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• To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Hearing, Opinion, Assuming

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.163, Hackett Publishing

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• I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.

  Michio Kaku

  Swimming, Thinking, Space

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• Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Attitude, Heart

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• Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Children, Artist, Crayon

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• We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

  Brennan Manning

  Self, Wonder, Intimacy

  Brennan Manning (2014). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.25, Tyndale House

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• Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Powerful, Worry, Waiting

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• No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Lying, Ignorance, Mouths

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• People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Mind, Rich

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• Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

  David Deida

  Love Is, Essentials, Infinite

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• We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.

  Cullen Hightower

  Information, Messages, Sometimes

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• I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Cost, Accepting

  "Life And Death". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1987.

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• Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.

  Edward Said

  Vegetables, Gone, Information

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• Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'

  Wendy McElroy

  Believe, Voice, Voting

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• Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, People, Helpful

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• Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

  Richard Branson

  People, Groups, Movement

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2017

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• Disregarding all evidence to the contrary, the student of Truth will maintain that he lives in a PERFECT Universe and among people potentially perfect. He will regulate his thinking to meet this necessity and refuse to believe in its opposite. At first he may be influenced by conditions, and he may appear weak, but as time goes on he will PROVE TO HIMSELF that his position is a correct one, for that which appears imperfect will begin to slip from his experience

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.130, Penguin

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