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• If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

  John Macmurray

  Love, Eye, Reality

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• Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

  Beth Moore

  Christian, Enemy, Surrender

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• Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

  Nicki Minaj

  Fitness, Regret, Defeated

  "Minaj urges fans to 'take charge' in 2011" by Daniel Sperling, www.digitalspy.com. January 3, 2011.

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• There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Humble, Humility

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• I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.

  Myles Horton

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.235, Temple University Press

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• God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must "hold him" well and strongly, with a poor spirit, with a poor heart, with a life entirely poor.

  Raphael Kalinowski

  Heart, Pride, Unhappy

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• My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

  Dionne Warwick

  Racism, Prejudice, Defeat

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• He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.

  Constance Naden

  Wisdom, Rain, Heart

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• It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.

  Charles E. Blake

  Mistake, People, Scary

  "Some Black Pastors See New Aid Under Bush" by John Leland, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 2001.

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• The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

  Plato

  Wise, Plato, Men

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• There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up.

  Allan Armitage

  Death, Dream, Growing Up

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• True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.

  Gangaji

  Simple, People, Joy

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• The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Mind, Important

  Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

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• A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Men

  "Moral Sayings". 540. As translated by Darius Lyman,

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• It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

  Publilius Syrus

  Honesty, Kindness, Deny

  "Maxims".

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• To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

  Publilius Syrus

  Favors

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• When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

  George Iles

  Science, Order, Mind

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• Today, refuse to see yourself as a recipient of negative vibrations or as a victim of subtle or gross influence around you. Practice broadcasting the high vibrations of your inner radiance remembering all the while that the place upon which you stand is holy simply because you are standing there.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Practice, Radiance

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• The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Reality, People, Deceit

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• Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.

  Les Carlyon

  Sports, Hero, Passion

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• To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

  Peter Block

  Teaching, Learning, Adventure

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• Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting, it's about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in a cause that you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.

  Richard Machowicz

  Motivational, Believe, Fighting

  Richard J. Machowicz (2000). “Unleashing the Warrior Within: Using the 7 Principles of Combat to Achieve Your Goals”, Hyperion

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• The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

  Robert R. Shannon

  Inspirational, Leadership, Emergencies

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• I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.279, New Leaf Publishing Group

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