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• Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.

  Mary Norris

  Sorry, Mean, Church

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• For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Memories, Careers

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• The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Moving, Heart, Fate

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• I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

  Leonora Carrington

  Objects

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• I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

  Christine Lavin

  Army, Knives, Giving

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• Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

  Iris DeMent

  Believe, Fighting, Guy

  Song: Wasteland of the Free, Album: The Way I Should

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• He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Safety, Trouble, Doubtful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 816, Oedipus, CCXIII, 1922.

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• Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

  Beatrice Webb

  People, Wealth, Rich

  Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1923). “The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation”

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• We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

  Jesse Torrey

  Smoking, Poison, Credit

  Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186

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• Make bold moves toward your dreams each day, refuse to stop and nothing can stop you.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Apr 02, 2017

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• How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

  John the Apostle

  Brother, Children, Doe

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• We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, Taken, America

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• The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

  Walt Whitman

  Promise, Environmental, Haste

  'To the sayers of words' 2

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• I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

  Martial

  Granted, Borrowing, Asks

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.580

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• Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Destiny, Self, Cells

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• A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Strive, Ends

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Flower, Omission, Branches

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.182

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• Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

  Pablo Picasso

  Heart, Today, Poet

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Life, Strength

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• To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

  Frederick Buechner

  Forgiveness, Pride, Rights

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 21, 2013

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• Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Judging, Listening

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• Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

  John Milton

  Law, Reason, Force

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Pain, Focus, Valleys

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• Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.

  Socrates

  Mother, Nursing, Desire

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• Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

  Stendhal

  Men, Giving, Action

  Stendhal, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1927). “On Love”

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