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• Abram, having failed in Genesis 13, comes through with flying colors in this battle of faith because he aligns himself with God, and he refuses to allow his heart to be compromised by the possibility of taking the riches that this world can offer.

  Ligon Duncan

  Heart, Color, Flying

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• Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

  Plato

  Men, Order, Law

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

  Anais Nin

  Play, Judging, Roles

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• In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Gay, Names

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 28, 2010

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• The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Race, United States, Problem

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• What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.

  RuPaul

  Thinking, People, Belief

  "RuPaul speaks about society and the state of drag as performance art". Interview with David Shankbone, en.wikinews.org. October 6, 2007.

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• Lean toward love at all times, cut people slack, forgive and forget, and be kind, very kind; the more you do that, the less fear you will have. People will raise up to support you. Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.

  Stuart Wilde

  Cutting, Support You, People

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• If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Support, Connections

  Herbert Spencer (2014). “The Right to Ignore the State”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiving, Mercy, Term

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• Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Perfection, Empowering

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 06, 2015

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• You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Believe, Greatness

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• The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

  Wayne Dyer

  Ignorance, Rejection, Knows

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• If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

  R. C. Sproul

  Arrogance, Forgiving, How You Feel

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• Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

  Brian Tracy

  Courage, Compromise, Knows

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• I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.

  Donald Glover

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• A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.

  Jean Vanier

  Community, Insecurity, Dying

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• Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

  Federico Fellini

  Pain, Law, Imagination

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Stronger, Quests, Slavery

  "Climate change and the value of daring" by Joseph Robertson, David Thoreson, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Army, World

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• Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear - it means we refuse to be overcome by it.

  Steven Furtick

  Mean, Brave, Overcoming

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• Commitment is the ultimate assertion of human freedom. It releases all the energy you possess and enables you to take quantum leaps in creativity. When you set a one-pointed intention and absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to dissipate the focused quality of your attention, you engage the infinite organizing power of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Commitment, Quality

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Nov 02, 2015

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• Refuse to let your love grow cold. Stir up love in your life - towards your spouse and towards your family, friends, neighbours, co-workers. Reach out to others who are hurting and in need. Pray for people and bless them. Grow to the point that one of your first thoughts each morning in your heart is about how you can bless someone else that day.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Morning, Heart

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• This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Names, Silence

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

  Gaelen Foley

  Cutting, Love Is, Knowing

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• I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

  Jamie Farr

  Hollywood, Doe, Broadway

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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