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• The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Views, Facts

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1820, Delphi Classics

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• Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.

  Marion Woodman

  Mother, Mean, Eating Disorder

  "Addiction to Perfection". Book by Marion Woodman, 1982.

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• Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Office, Mediocrity

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Evil, Apologizing

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.463, Penguin

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• The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

  Jane Addams

  Elderly, Rebel, Tasks

  Jane Addams (1930). “The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness”

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• If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.

  Georges Bernanos

  Fire, Answers, Hell

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who leads the good to wickedness,He who makes the meadows waterless and the pastures desolate,He who lets fly his weapon against the innocent,An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord!

  Zoroaster

  Past, Light, Enemy

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• Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others extend their Scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves; yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls when they are bought in the Market.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  People, Beef, Alive

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark P, pp. 188-189, 1732.

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• If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Mean, Men, Teeth

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis. Millions of people gather at one place and, giving their actions order and regularity, kill each other, and it hurts everybody equally, and all are unhappy -- what is it if not madness?

  Leonid Andreyev

  Hurt, War, Order

  Leonid Andreyev (2007). “The Seven That Were Hanged”, p.148, Wildside Press LLC

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• A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.

  Theodor Adorno

  Thinking, Veils, Approach

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.13, Columbia University Press

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• We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Leaving, Undone

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

  Russell Baker

  Thinking, Who I Am, Clothes

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge.

  Geneen Roth

  Live Life, Anorexia, Soul

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Light, Opposites

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• There's a place in the world for the angry young man
  With his working class ties and his radical plans
  He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl
  He's always at home with his back to the wall
  And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost
  And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross
  And he likes to be known as the angry young man.

  Billy Joel

  Wall, Struggle, Home

  "Prelude". Song by Billy Joel, 1976.

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• Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

  Antonin Artaud

  Moments, Excuse, Distinction

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Light, Validation, Finals

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.41, Routledge

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• [Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Order, Long

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.65, Routledge

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• I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Shapes, Way, Beats

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• Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Another fairy tale to give men hope . The old religions have been discredited although some refuse to face even that fact so new ones must be invented.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Men, Giving, Faces

  Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.176, Macmillan

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• If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

  Denzel Washington

  Writing, Effort, Film

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.

  Vladimir Putin

  Running, Country, Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!

  Alan Redpath

  Love, God, Christian

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• Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Sick, Enough

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.229, Macmillan

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