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• I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.

  Renee Fleming

  Perfect, Noble, Facts

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.40, Penguin

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• Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.

  Elliott Abrams

  Land, Egypt, Yemen

  "Opinion: The Thanks of a Grateful Nation" by Joel D. Hirst, www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2011.

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• We see constituents who are manifestly incapable of undertaking any normal work... Those whose applications for benefits are subsequently rejected go through a period of incredible stress, and some, sadly, take their lives during that time. Applicants who appeal usually win.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Stress, Winning, Benefits

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• Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Teaching, Reality

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• He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Opportunity, Excellence, Quality

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.253

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• We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

  Tara Brach

  Greatest Fear, Want, Intimacy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Land, America

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• The courage of federal Judge Frank Johnson is well-known.He was the one that gave the legal authority for the right to march from Selma to Montgomery, and he suffered dearly for it. He was ostracized and rejected. His life was threatened as a result of it.

  Dick Durbin

  Judging, March, Well Known

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Mistake, Cutting, Past

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• Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

  Peter Forsyth

  Prayer, Long, Praying

  Peter Taylor Forsyth, Eugene H. Peterson (1916). “The Soul of Prayer”, p.16, Regent College Publishing

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• The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that was made by people like Thomas Aquinas, that was assumed doctrinally in that tradition. The Reformation rejected that model of reality and created a highly individualistic metaphysics in the sense that it located everything normative that can be said about reality in human perception, there being, of course, no other avenue of knowing. There is Scripture, there is conscience, there is perception itself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Knowing, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Belief, Feels, Built

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• For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.

  Max Lucado

  Giving Up, Winning, Simple

  Max Lucado (2013). “God's Inspirational Promises”, p.166, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Love Is, Men, Names

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• I write most of my stuff. When I'm rejected in music, it hurts worse than when I don't get a role, because that's someone else's vision. If they don't see me as that part, even if I believe I'm the perfect person for it, that's their vision. The music is my vision.

  Taryn Manning

  Hurt, Believe, Writing

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Simple, Expression, Ideas

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• No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Issues, Arguing, Accepted

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• Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.

  Saul Alinsky

  War, Class, Organization

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• If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

  Henri Nouwen

  Problem, Thousand, Feels

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Book, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Maenads, Noise

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.133, Vintage

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• Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

  Kit Williamson

  Thinking, Knowing, Bravery

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• The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. It didn't matter what anybody was telling me, how many times I got rejected, because it was never as bad as being rejected by your own father.

  DJ Ashba

  Determination, Dad, Father

  "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done! Then I said, 'Could I look at every script Jim Carrey rejected?' It didn't center around me getting a man.

  Sandra Bullock

  Men, Looks, Done

  Interview with Cindy Pearlman, acttwomagazine.com.

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• Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

  Robert Mugabe

  Rights, Views, People

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2007.

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