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• But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

  Cynthia Weil

  Song, Rejection, Stories

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• The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

  George Eliot

  Fall, Love Is, Feet

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.299, 谷月社

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• The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

  David Hawkins

  Rejection, Addresses, Global Warming

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• [Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

  John Milton

  Italian, Numbers, Long

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• Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

  Maria Cantwell

  Oil, Car, Rejection

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• People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.

  Albert Ellis

  Regret, Frustration, People

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• When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

  Chaz Bono

  Transition, Transgender, Realised

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• I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Christian, Struggle, People

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• I realized that if I was going to understand the uniqueness and depth of God's love for me, I had to mentally separate my relationships with people from my relationship with the Lord. God's love should never be distorted or diminished by comparing it with the friendship or love of any human who has let me down, rejected me, betrayed me, or lied about me.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  People, Depth, Betrayed

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• Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Religious, Home, Order

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• I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Fighting, Publicity

  "Avril Lavigne, Friend Mexico Vacation Pics Spark Rumors" by Emma Koonse, www.christianpost.com. July 25, 2012.

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• There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

  Max Lucado

  Mother, Compassion, Abortion

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• By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under threat of death, this is the how-to book to read. It's filled with thoughtful, nuanced advice from a teacher/writer who actually writes, and writes beautifully and with great humor. The list of rejected stories is worth the price of the whole book.

  Nora Gallagher

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Ideas, Revolutionary, Truth Is

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

  Jilly Cooper

  Girl, People, Choices

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• If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

  Francois Rabelais

  Religion, Monkeys, Young

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• It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Teaching, Men

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• When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

  Socrates

  Inspire, Desire, Judgment

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• Tactility was rejected in conceptual photography. I embrace the possibilities of my medium. Surface, texture, and tactility is something analog photography can do well, or it is something I can do well in analog photography. It can be hard to know what or who is in control.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Photography, Possibility, Embrace

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• I'd asked girls out and they'd turn me down, and so finally it got to the place where you didn't want to be rejected. And so you just didn't ask.

  Bob Packwood

  Girl, Sex, Dating

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• When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Interesting, Creative, Derivatives

  "Book Talk - Nicholas Sparks on Telling Stories Through Text, Film". www.reuters.com. October 10, 2013.

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• Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

  Alex Kapranos

  Alternatives, Hierarchy, Mainstream

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

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• There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

  Jean Kerr

  Class, People, Said

  Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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• It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.

  Nick Carter

  Thinking, Special, Looks

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• To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

  Jane Austen

  Style

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.502, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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