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• Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.

  Julian Baggini

  Opportunity, People, Unhappy

  "For God's sake, start moaning" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2007.

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• The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Teaching, Men, Secret

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.1206, Penguin

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• I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

  Rob Bell

  Believe, People, Giving

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• The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Technology, Oil, Fuel Economy

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• We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

  Chris Chocola

  Challenges, Solutions, Nations

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• In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Punishment, Church, Target

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• With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

  Diana DeGette

  Support, Generations, Citizens

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• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  Nathan Deal

  Cells, Support, Research

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• The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Successful, Epic, May

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• I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

  Lily Allen

  Paparazzi, Doorstep

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

  Glenn Frey

  Order, Law, Smugglers

  Song: Smuggler's Blues

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• I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Simplicity, Charming

  Philip Parker King, Sir Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Charles Darwin (1839). “Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...”, p.514

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• My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

  Robbie Williams

  Religious, Cynical, Religion

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• There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

  Fred Frith

  Views, Interesting, Perspective

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• I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  New York, Winning, Giving

  "Ford's Bluff Is Called; He Won't Challenge Gillibrand In N.Y." by Ken Rudin, www.npr.org. March 2, 2010.

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• We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

  Nigel Farage

  Believe, School, Doors

  "Conservative right calls for return to core values and end to 'barmy' policies" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• I refuse to make uninspired music.

  Ben Harper

  Uninspired

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• Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

  Townsend Harris

  Intercourse, Nations, Excluded

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• How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.

  Gayle King

  Country, Boys, Cities

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• In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

  George Orwell

  Book, People, Littles

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

  Amy Grant

  Philosophy, Believe, Dies

  Song: Children Of The World, Album: House of Love, 1994

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• What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

  Lord Mountbatten

  Kings, Jobs, Firsts

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• I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

  Connie Nielsen

  Art, Trying, Want

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

  Italo Calvino

  Party, Commitment, Political

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• Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

  Sigmar Polke

  People, Trying, Painter

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