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• I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Powerful, Data, Challenges

  "Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.

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• We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

  Richard Stallman

  Views, Long, People

  "Interview with Richard Stallman: Four Essential Freedoms" by Roy Schestowitz, IT Management, December 19, 2007.

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• Refuse to believe and research is a way to the truth.

  Khem Veasna

  Believe, Research, Way

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• It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.

  Porter Stansberry

  Moving Slowly, Accomplishment, Presidential

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• Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Yesterday, Vision, Tomorrow

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• It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

  Norman Douglas

  Issues, Political, Society

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Rivers, Mind

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• The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.

  John Verdon

  Pain, Mistake, Looks

  John Verdon (2010). “Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, No. 1)”, p.102, Broadway Books

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• Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.

  Mike Tyson

  Winning, Broken, Boxing

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• It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

  Phillips Brooks

  Pride, Self, Tree

  "Lectures on Preaching, Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February, 1877".

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• I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

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• The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Miracle, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright

  Eyedea

  Past, Light, Bruises

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• Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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• The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Long, Horrible

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• I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a smile on my lips. I want an electric cremation. I don't want any poems or fuss after that. And for heaven's sake, don't bring back my ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh.

  Zohra Sehgal

  Sleep, Giving, Laughing

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• O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
  What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Opinion

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• The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Mean, Men

  Oscar Wilde (1988). “The complete plays”, Methuen Drama

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• No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder... is to snort it! I just won't do that this time!

  Margaret Cho

  White, Firsts, Example

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

  Washington Irving

  Mourning, Sorrow, Affliction

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.270

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• He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.

  Dante Alighieri

  Needs, Spirit, Refusal

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• Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

  Lillian Hellman

  Mean, Self, Justice

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• Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dream, Reality, Looks

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• If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Delight, Shut Up

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