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• Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Soul, Important, Denial

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• ... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice among every thing that is exact, one would hardly think of many questions, and certain notions ... would escape us completely.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Math, Thinking, Choices

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• The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

  Cyril Connolly

  Rivers, Sitting, Tipping

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• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Stress, Men

  Of Human Bondage ch. 39 (1915)

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• Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Morning, Fire, White

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.286, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." (2 Peter2:7.) We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to God's will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Wicked, Quality, Language

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• Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.

  Sadie Robertson

  Giving Up, Real, Character

  FaceBook post by Sadie Robertson from Mar 20, 2016

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• If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Men, Order

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

  Ray LaMontagne

  Eye, Ears

  Song: Hold You In My Arms, Album: Trouble, 2004

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• Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Sea, London, Gallows

  Peter Ackroyd (2003). “London: The Biography”, Anchor

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• No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and indispensable necessity, like repentance, faith, and conversion. But it is impossible to say that any professing Christian is in a safe, healthy, or satisfactory condition of soul, who habitually refuses to obey Christ and attend the Lord's Table.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Men, Healthy

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.286, Whitaker House

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• The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  World, Behave, Reasonable

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Shoes, Would Be, Gender

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• Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Attitude, Past, Fire

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• Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Light, Giving, Recognition

  Henry Edward Manning (1874). “Sin and Its Consequences”, p.256

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• Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

  Galileo Galilei

  Laughter, Philosophy, Science

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• What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hypocrite, Errors, Support

  "Notes on the State of Virginia". Book by Thomas Jefferson, 1781-1783.

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• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  Jack Paar

  Mind, Television, Program

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• The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Trouble, Reason, Meaningless

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• Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Feelings, Mind

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• Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.

  Leland Ryken

  Self, Levels, Want

  "Differences in Bible Translations". Bible Translation Magazine Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.

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• I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Pain, Important

  "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear" by Toni Morrison, www.thenation.com. March 23, 2015.

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• To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

  Robin Sharma

  Insult, Life Is, Accepting

  Robin Sharma (2004). “Discover Your Destiny with The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.54, Jaico Publishing House

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• In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

  Angela Carter

  Taken, World, Commodity

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.32, Hachette UK

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