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• The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

  Jackie Vernon

  Sassy, Nerves, Earth

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• I refused to worry about something I could not change, and I still refuse. Look, I'm like any other woman. All this evolved b.s. that I'm telling you is my mantra. It's not something I practice naturally. I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed, because that's just part of the journey of having a baby. I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.

  Kristen Bell

  Baby, Self Worth, Journey

  "How to Be Happy, By Kristen Bell". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.

  Paulo Freire

  Teaching, People, Needs

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.128, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Running, Writing, Wine

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Independence, Bidding

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.300, Vintage

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• Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am

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• (Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

  Charles Stanley

  Doors, Choices, Discouragement

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• What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

  John Hampden

  Kings, Demand, Economics

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• Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Government, Giving

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• Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?

  Naomi Oreskes

  Years, World, Argument

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• I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

  Barack Obama

  Fixing, Generations, Climate Change

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

  John C. Sawhill

  Environmental, Climate Change, Defined

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• The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Science, Law

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations". 1988.

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• So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and ever," or whether we will rebel and refuse or be indifferent and not comply with the conditions and the laws and the ordinances provided by a merciful Father for our guidance through life and our protection and our salvation and thereby, by so doing, deny ourselves the fabulous gift and blessing of eternal life. This life, then, is a time of "sifting," a time when the "wheat" is separated from the "chaff," a time of deciding who is who and where we will live after we die.

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Life, Father, Blessing

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• Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you.

  Jack Miles

  Inspirational, Sky, Littles

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• The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Soul

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.320, Ignatius Press

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• Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.

  Jacques Chirac

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today.

  Ehren Watada

  War, Party, Oath Of Office

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• Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

  Judith Light

  Gay, Men, Race

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• The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

  Rock Hudson

  Actors, Dangerous, Feels

  Rock Hudson, Sara Davidson (1987). “Rock Hudson: his story”, Avon Books

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• The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you.

  Amy Poehler

  Google, Looks, Type

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• I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Home, Loss

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• Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.

  Shirley Manson

  Impact, Careers, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Rumor, Tabloids

  "Golden girl LeAnn Rimes tarnished by relationship drama" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. September 8, 2009.

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• And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

  Ben Stein

  Citizens, Paradoxical, Prove

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