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• The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.

  Alan Keyes

  Office, President, Usurpers

  'Countdown with Keith Olbermann', www.nbcnews.com. February 20, 2009.

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• The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!

  Alan Keyes

  Believe, Army, Order

  Alan Keyes's Speech at Rally in Defense of Marriage in Boston, Massachusetts, www.keyesarchives.com. May 14, 2004.

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• I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  War, Done, Guilty

  "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, p. 5, 1995.

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• If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

  Publilius Syrus

  Granted, Theft, Invites

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• When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself.
  Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.

  Bob Proctor

  Giving, Hook, Use

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 14, 2013

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• You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  People, Forgiving, Judgment

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• Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

  Gao Xingjian

  Truth, Subservient

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• We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees we cut down for our view. What we possessed we always chose to kill. "We claimed the earth but did not hear her claim, And when we died, they laid us on her breast, But she refuses us until we earn Forgiveness from the lives we dispossessed.

  Dana Gioia

  Cutting, Views, Names

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.49, Macmillan

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• As soon as we get comfortable in one role, we have to take on another! Why? ... Because he wants to keep us off balance! That's why! Because he doesn't want us to THINK! He doesn't want us to QUESTION HIS AUTHORITY! So he keeps us busy! Keeps us running in circles! Like mice! Rushing from one role to the next! Well, I'm on to his game! I see what he's doing! And I refuse to participate!

  Walter Wykes

  Running, Thinking, Games

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• Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Progress, Lasts

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• The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Mean, Land

  Judith Stacey (1996). “In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age”, Beacon Pr

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• I am speaking of something that is no longer happening - that is not currently going on. If someone is abusing you, or doing something illegal, or even something you refuse to tolerate, and it's still continuing, that is not an issue of forgiveness, that is an issue of making sure that stops - even if you have to get away from that situation - that's very important.

  Ysabella Brave

  Issues, Important, Illegal

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Forgiveness", www.youtube.com. July 07, 2007.

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• Well, I never been to SpainBut I kinda like the musicSay the ladies are insane thereAnd they sure know how to use itThey don't abuse it, never gonna lose itI can't refuse it.

  Hoyt Axton

  Abuse, Insane, Wells

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• In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along [...] there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, "independent" regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections.

  Ilana Mercer

  Independent, Agency, Play

  "Quacking Over Ducksters As Freedoms Go Poof". www.wnd.com. January 3, 2014.

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• To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Past, Views, Church

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• I have occasionally thought that some [TV] hosts have needed treatment, and some of these hosts have even admitted they could benefit from therapy. Having said that, I think most people can benefit from treatment. Those who need it and refuse to get it generally have the most "issues.

  Robi Ludwig

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.

  Ali al-Sistani

  Party, Law, Office

  "Top Iraqi Shi'ite cleric rejects Baathist law". www.reuters.com. April 2, 2007.

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• [Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

  Richard Dawkins

  Medicine, Practice, Alternatives

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Ignorance, Pride, Investing

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• This Ted Cruz guy, I mean, he incurred the wrath, really, of his own party. They don't like him. Democrats hate him. Independents hate him. Republicans hate him. Even Miley Cyrus, he's the one guy she refuses to lick.

  Bill Maher

  Hate, Party, Mean

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• Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Effort, Resistance

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.204, Knopf

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• Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Belloc: A Biographical Anthology”

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• I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

  Irene Cara

  Trying, Different, Different Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted right... Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Men, Hands

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1980*). “Encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI on atheistic communism: official Vatican text”

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