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• in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

  Catherine Marshall

  Positive, Cynicism, Secrecy

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• Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Firsts, Etc, Musician

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• It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Acceptance, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.302, Penguin

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• When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Success, Simplicity, Weak

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

  Howard Thurman

  Jesus, Father, Hatred

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Night

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• You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Artist, Play, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Design, Path, Different

  "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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• One of my obsessions in life is that we have the tools to manufacture moments and real things, but it's overwhelming and there's a lot of fear and you think maybe you'll be rejected or embarrassed or somehow hurt emotionally. So we don't do the things we know we can do, but we can make people feel better and make people happier with compliments or just being positive and that sort of thing and sending it their way.

  Pete Holmes

  Hurt, Real, Feel Better

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Father, Book, People

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Appreciation, Art, Book

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• The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army

  Warren Farrell

  Army, Men, Boys

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.

  John Carroll

  Taken, Men, Return

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.87, Taylor & Francis

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• In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."

  Herbert Schiller

  Example, Infringement, Protect

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• I have rejected Juventus four times; it's a beautiful pussy that doesn't get me horny.

  Antonio Cassano

  Beautiful, Horny, Pussy

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• The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

  Sigrid Undset

  Bottles, Morality, Empty

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• There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Character, Risk, Suffering

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• The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

  Maimonides

  Passion, Men, Ideas

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.426, Aeterna Press

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• In negotiating with rejected lovers or husbands, women must stop thinking they can make everyone happy. In many cases of harassment and stalking, it is clear that the woman never learned how to terminate the fantasy which requires resolution and decisiveness on their part. Wavering, dithering, or passive hysterical fear will only intensify or prolong pursuit.

  Camille Paglia

  Husband, Thinking, Wavering

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.47, Vintage

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• On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

  Harold Wilson

  Littles, Hearing, Eras

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• It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

  George Washington

  Men, May, Coquette

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.

  Malcolm X

  Views, West, Use

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• Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

  Ilana Mercer

  Rights, Identity, Groups

  "Uber Alec, barking-mad Bashir, death-defying libertarians". www.wnd.com. November 29, 2013.

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• To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.

  Savitri Devi

  Men, Numbers, Giving

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• I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Children, Book, Writing

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