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• People are going to bash you. You get rejected. It's hard. I don't really feel like that's my place as the teacher. I think the most important thing is to figure out what they're trying to do and turn them onto writers who are doing similar stuff. I think that's something I can do more than anything else: get them to be big readers.

  Molly Antopol

  Teacher, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Simple, Your Side

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• The whole notion of one person being enough for everything gets instantly challenged when you start to talk with somebody about wanting more or of wanting something else. They take it personally, feel like a failure or feel that they lack something, so you don't talk about it because you don't want to hurt, offend, or scare the other person. You also don't want to be rejected or have them leave you, whatever the reason.

  Esther Perel

  Hurt, Scare, Reason

  "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.

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• In politics, the definition of a real man is different from, I would say, outside Washington or outside the establishment. I don't think that's even arguable. But human nature is what it is, and men (straight men) want women. And it's always a challenge. It's never a piece of cake. You're rejected. You know Woody Allen? One funny thing he really said. Somebody said, "Woody, what has success meant?" He said, "It means being rejected by a higher class of woman." Life is filled with rejection. Men - nobody - women, they don't like rejection.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Love, Letting Go, Distance

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.23, Penguin

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• He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

  Henri Michaux

  Angel, Poetry, Annoying People

  Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.176, Univ of California Press

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• Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

  Richard Whately

  Poison, May, Ingredients

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.60

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• I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

  Shakira

  People, Controversial, Periods

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• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  Salman Rushdie

  World, Horrible

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• The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

  David Rockefeller

  Art, Past, Done

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

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• Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.

  Lord Kelvin

  Jesus, Men, Rejection

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• No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Childhood, Parent, Adults

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• A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, Self Reliance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• In the Name of Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate, Who manifests Himself through everything, the revelation of a clear knowing to whomsoever He wishes, peace be upon you, my son. This praise belongs to Allah Who manifests Himself on the head of a pin to whom He wishes, so that one testifies that He is not, and another testifies that there is none other than He. But the witnessing in the denying of Him is not rejected, and the witnessing in the affirming of Him is not praised.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Son, Names, Knowing

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• Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

  Fred Barnes

  Christian, Religious, Hands

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• The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

  Jeremiah

  Wise, Wisdom, Taken

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• America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

  Christine Pelosi

  Math, America, Males

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, People, Giving

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• At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  Al Pacino

  Children, Humble, Careers

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• I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

  Princess Diana

  People, Drug, Affinity

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• I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent
  in any iota of the world;
  I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects,
  vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than
  I have supposed.

  Walt Whitman

  Weed, Doubt, World

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.217

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• Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

  Aya Cash

  Jobs, Fighting, Come Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

  George Stigler

  Beats, Theory, Evidence

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• I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Jesus, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

  Allen W. Wood

  Enlightenment, Path, Resistance

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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